Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: June, 2015

I JUST DANCED

The Hawk Living Room 1:08pm

I just danced

to Daft Punk, One More Time

here in My Hawk Living Room

— the last time I danced

like I was from Outer Space

was during one month

in The Nova Scotia Hospital

for Those Who don’t know

It’s The Province’s largest mental hospital

re-named The East Coast Forensic Unit

and of that month

I cannot recall a single day

but the day I arrived

KNITTING KNOW-HOW

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:39pm

I’m taking off

on My Knitting

under the instruction

of My Children’s Grandmother

I have perched My Fingers

on 2 gun-metal rockets, star pointed

providing novice support

for My Earliest Rows

of hot pink

garter stitch

 

DIVINE UNIVERSE

The Hawk Kitchen 8:19pm

coagulating

filaments of sour cream

swirl in the round

KILLER FORCE

The Hawk Kitchen 5:47pm

A Silver Fish on the corner

of My Husband’s writing desk

just went SPLAT

when I slapped My Left Palm

upon Him, He Who was just sitting there

like a spy —

I killed A Bug

to save My Life

and The Sanctity of My Home

OUTER BANK

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:00am

The Sea is NOT Silver

Today — can You believe it?

It is the colour of The Cloud —

laden sky — with the tapered end

of a fog bank to the East

rising up like an elongated

iceberg

in the middle

of My Glacial View

PERFECT MADNESS

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 5:50pm

I have lint bugs elasticized

around My Underwear waist bands

I have seen spies in the little hospital

where I had My Blood drawn

and urine sample surrendered

Am I Going Mad

or is this all perfection

of idiosyncrasies

like The Inclusion I so love

in My Birthday Diamond Ring?

NO WORK KNITTING

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 3:52pm

I don’t read any more

& My Idle Hands

are telling Me to take up

a hobby, like knitting

with giant knitting needles

& soft variegated yarn

I could make an Afghan

of no particular pattern

in a flash of leisurely hours

with large loopy-d-loops

& hairy thread

to throw on top of Me

in My Napping Bed

ASTRO JASPER COSMO

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:38pm

Astropithicus is a stately cat —

He sits, shoulders high

above the top step

of My Deck in the evening

overcast by motley clouds

His Blackness is distinct

His Low-lidded Eyes are green

& look straight at Me

through the sliding glass door

TEST

The Hawk Kitchen 3:26pm

I am having to pee

into a flower shop vase

to collect twenty four hours of urine

in an orange plastic jug

for PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA —

a benign tumour on the adrenal glands

causing sporadic high blood pressure

possibly linked to My Halo

My Beloved Halo

TO BE SEEN

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:35am

The Silver Band of Ocean

barred by black cloud

illuminates the feathered white

above all

presenting The Glory

of The Day

at hand