Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

CLUTCHING MY BLACK DIARY AGAINST MY PURPLE-ROBED CHEST

The Hawk Corner Room 1:15pm

Do My Cells Know

I Am Exhibiting

“A Failure To Thrive” —

Do They Know I Have Not Eaten Lunch

& That I Cannot

Possibly Take The Cats To The Vet

Tomorrow

For Their Annual Inoculations?

I HAVE TO WRITE

The Hawk Corner Room 10:43am

I have to write

as if My Life depended on it —

I have to write

as I watch The Silver Streaks

out on the ocean

move from singular lines

to eye-splitting patches

taking over

the murky darker grey