Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: December, 2014

EASTERN VIEW

The Hawk Out Post 4:30pm

Eye walk to The Sky

held inside M(eye) Kitchen

Out Post

never am Eye lost

for answers seen within

layered clouds

of pinkish grey

& peaks of rooftops

gilded in the amber light

of M(eye) Earliest Evening

IN LOVE

The Hawk Out Post 1:06pm

I stand with My Morning

Coffee

in The Afternoon — delayed

by a fluky power outage —

I’m still in My Pyjamas

but it doesn’t matter

when I get My Shower

I Am A Free Woman

in love with the strapping band

of Ocean before Me

& My Forever Sky Above

FEROCITY

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:00pm

In December 1970 I wanted to possess

badly wanted

A Pair Of Love Birds

green & red —

sitting so close

in the local pet store

I had My nine-year-old heart set

on Them & cried to My Mother

that I had to have Them

to which She replied, “Joge, what if One Of Them

dies?”

Instead, on Christmas Morning I found

a beautiful Indian Ring Neck Parakeet

but He died That Day

at the bottom of His Golden Cage

& destroyed

My ability to see

The Singularity Of God

FEEDING THE CHILDREN

Tusket, NS 11:45am

When are We going to stop

hearing why Christmas should

or shouldn’t be —

or what it should or shouldn’t

be for?

Like an open van-load of toys

in a car dealer’s show room

to attract any child’s attention

with a sales woman’s pronouncement:

“It’s for the kids —

that’s what Christmas

should be for –“

LAVENDER LADY

Eliza’s Lavender Room 7:36pm

The Second Coming of Christ

has moved out of Her Husband’s Room

to afford greater access

to sleep without cats

— a temporary move —

but now to live

in the singularity of mind

DIVINE & HUMAN

as She programs Her Self

to open up The World

by saying “Good Night”

to Its mammoth past