Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

VENISON VIEW*

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:55pm

Deer Trio Out Back

Stealthily Graze Well-marked Path

I Join Transfixed Cats

*title by WHB

DUALITY

The Hawk Window Seat 3:55pm

I have My Sunglasses on

to view the two different states

of water out My Bedroom Window:

The Hawk Inlet

— inner side of The Cape’s strip of sand and dune —

is a calm sheen this afternoon

while out beyond the ocean roils

and that is what I hear

amidst The Sun’s Power

over Both

LUNCH ON THE HAWK

The Hawk Portico Steps 1:38pm

Today I eat My Home Made Toast

out by a fading snow drift

I listen to the familiar surf

out past the thawing Cape

The Single Call of a nearby Crow

invites Me to This Feast

of My Outside Hour:

I Drink

WINTER WARM-UP

The Hawk Window Seat 10:44am

Today I stuck My Head out

the sliding glass door

of My Kitchen

to hear The Chorus

of clamouring Jays

ushering in

The Promise

of a New Spring