Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

EXERCISE IN PERSONAE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:37pm

1.  Second Coming Of Christ —

immediate result of The Shower Of Silver Lights

aspects:  brilliant light, whiteness (not skin colour),

awakening, worldly vision

2.  The Anti-Christ —

wants to obliterate Christianity —

I don’t want to obliterate

anyone’s religion but I do wonder

what this world would be like

with only One Religion

3.  Black Jesus —

black in colour (not skin colour),

represents compassion,

humanity’s darkness

used in conjunction as opposing element in

The Grand Design Of Our Reconciliation Of Opposites

BLACK & WHITE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:17pm

How Can I Stop

The World

& Say I Am All Things:

I Am The Second Coming

Of Christ —

I Am The Anti-Christ

I Am Black Jesus

waiting out this mess

in My Cathedral-ceilinged

Living Room

where no one dies

cats are cared for

& The Radio Plays

Pretty Songs?

PSYCHOSIS ANYONE?

The Hawk Living Room 5:49pm

If I Were Catatonic

I Would Be Dangerous

If I Could Speak

I Would Slay With A Line

I Could Squelch

With A Paragraph

I Wouldn’t Eat

I Would Sit In Any Chair

& Stare At My Mind

& Become Black Jesus

The Anti-Christ

A Witch With Short Hair

 

SONG FOR MOTHER & DAUGHTER

August 6th,The Hawk Window Seat 11:07am

This Morning I Stood

At The Sliding Glass Door

Listening To The Waves

& The Insistence Of A Chickadee

But I Was Pulled Away

By The Concerns Of My Daughter

Making Her Way To College

August 7th, The Hawk Window Seat 11:04am

Last Night I Scared Eliza

Trying To Describe Our Shift

To The Left, To The East

Picturing My Self Standing

In The Atlantic

Facing South

With The West To My Right

The East To My Left

& The Mona Lisa

Has A Surprise

Under Her Left Hand