Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

THE TRASH BIN

The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:28pm

I swept up a dust pan of spacial matter

from around the kitty litter box

— it contained the mass

of unnameable stars

and never-ending debris from their creation —

into the depths

of a black hole

containing the mass

of twenty-two billion suns

ALL-OUT HUMAN

The Tomato-coloured Couch 1:05pm

I watched a society

of starlings

pecking in My Front Yard

while I realized

I am limiting My SELF

with this Second Coming of Christ

notion

and a white vehicle

drove past and scared

the birds away

SELF REALIZATION

The Halo Book

My Voice rang out

beyond the Drive-thru microphone

“One Large Decaf, Double Cream —

That’s It –“

&

My Signature lies crumpled

on a Wilson’s exchange slip*

dropped in a concrete encasement

for an air conditioning vent

*retrieved April 7, 2015 complete with bug