Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Deck 11:34am

The Chick-a-dee calls Me

away from My Self

to The Time of My Mother

when My Mother fed Them

& Me

in Valley Cottage

& called to Them

“Chick-a-dee-dee

Chick-a-dee-dee”

Here on The Hawk

Those Little Birds

take Me back

to when I was A Little Girl

raised by a single mother

in My First Real Home

My Real Home Now

is here on The Hawk

Fifty Years Later

where I listen

to The Chick-a-dees

of My Choosing