Joanna Gilman Hyde

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