Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Family (TV) Room 2:45pm

You stand before Me

in all Your Garish Black

quiet now because I don’t even know how

to turn You on

but I see That Red Light

on Your Lower Left

It speaks of Alarm

–

You say You need Me

My Innocence

yet You have outraged Me

by Your Silence when I asked

for direction

but I have

acquiesced

still clinging to what remains

of My Power

for I have what You want

& what I want from You now

are Your Insides:

I want Those Guts

I hate

I want to infest Them

& suffocate

under

Your Glaring Lights

Your Stabbing

Throbbing

Lights