Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: January, 2014

DARK HAWK

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:22pm

saw Dark Hawk in flight

against My Turbulent Sky:

Survival Power

FOR JACQUELINE RACE-RETFALVI

The Hawk Queen Bed 1:22pm

Trying to take a nap

with one Ativan

& My Doctor/Husband beside Me

I am in My Underwear

with snow squalls out Our window

— I don’t have My Glasses on —

everything’s all a blurb

A DAY IN EARLY SPRING

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22am

The Day Looks Much Like

A Day In Early Spring:

Snow Banks Lined With Slush

Over Ground Sodden

Beneath The Blowing Fog

Of Yester-year

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

SILVER CLOUDS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:28pm

The Evening Clouds

Are Heavy Silver

— everything comes to silver —

Moving From The Still-luminous West

Overhead As I Sit On The End

Of My Tomato-Coloured Couch

Savouring The Portrait

I Am Making

Of My Sky

SILVER OCEAN

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:50am

My Word!  I have caught a glimpse

of Silver Streaks

out on the grey ocean breaking

the colour of the new snow sky

— They were very brief — The Streaks

but I saw Them

& They glinted

for Our Second Cup

of Coffee

NEW DAY

The Hawk Corner Room NOON

Iron Blue Ocean

fortifies with another

year under My Belt