Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

ON-HIGH

The Hawk Kitchen 5:15pm

I have My Purple Toes

in My Silver Sandals

I can look down

on Them & pretend

I am in The Sky

or perched in a tree

Living The Life

of an On-high

Observer

FEEDING A GULL

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 3:20pm

I Have A Gull

Who Knows His Place

He Sits, raw

on My Right Middle Finger

a chunk of amethyst

bought Myself

next to My Included Refinement

bought Myself

He gets thrown hunks

of out-dated bread

from My Left Hand Fingers

dead-weighted with the diamonds

of marital promise

swallowed whole

while holding His Ground