Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

OH SEA!

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22pm

Oh sweet rhythm of The Sea

how You bathe The Right Side Of Me

in Your Effervescence

coming through My Shaded Window

and to My Left, I have My Husband

and He is My Husband

with His Hand holding Mine

and the table light out

so I can listen to You

in The Dark

Branta canadensis

Barrington Passage 4:05pm

Two Geese Honked O’erhead

“Your’s Is An Ungainly Love — ”

Flapping Toward The Moon

FOR NOW

The Hawk West Desk Window 2:22pm

I have given up, for now

My Old Silver Towel

in-which I buried My Face

My Darkest Secrets

to smell instead

The Comfort Of Clean Gold —

My New Robe

Of Contentment

CHILD’S POEM

The Hawk Kitchen 11:11am

This morning a Blue Jay

came to the top

of The Scraggly Apple

to say, “What’s In Store

For Today — Today –“

Then He flew away