The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:54am
A funny thing happened
this morning when I woke
at dawn:
I thought I was in Hunter’s Bed
& thought immediately of moving
into Eliza’s
when I realized I was
already there
*My Blog is Four Years Old
The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:00pm
Today I watched
a Universe drift through
My House — It started —
if I can use that phrase —
under a table in The Living Room
which displays The Heads of Hunter & Rudy*
and when I opened the front door
to let a cat in
(She changed Her Mind)
The Universe swept Its Self through
My Dining Room
and into The Kitchen
to roll to a stop
helices intact
string theories in place
at My Grandmother’s wrought iron chair
where I sit
to look out
*Rudy died on Tuesday, April 26th. He never got to see the sculpture.
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:05am
At Jordan Bay
My Grandmother
always watched The Ocean
dazzling —
She would tell Me
about The Diamonds
and Stars
and She would
allow Me to
relish Them and to
revel in Them
The Hawk Living Room 7:04am
The Shaft of Sunlight
on My Living Room Floor
illuminates the elements
of space —
I see an asteroid
and the dust of the stars
cat hairs and whiskers
take the place
of eternal galactic
gatherings
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:34pm
M(EYE) BODY STAR
is a diamond
M(EYE) BIRTH STONE
with one line of radiating silver
out from each of four points
M(EYE) BODY STAR
is hard and dark
ten and a half feet high
not yet signed
while specks of glitter
silver and black
follow Me around
M(EYE) HOUSE
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:05pm
I have M(EYE) BODY
figured out —
after a blood red flood
(it was blood after-all)
I have the beginning of a star
in the center
& black drips adding action
along three of four sides
The Format is vertical
eleven feet high
The Star will be configured
according to
M(EYE) MIND
The Hawk Dining Room 1:14pm
Today I finished off
My Stew
like any good woman would —
It had no meat left
but I didn’t care —
I ate The Thick Broth
lovingly
and savoured The Turnips —
a vegetable about which
I have mixed feelings
The Hawk Kitchen Sink 5:02pm
Into a cauldron
of an old half gallon
of “Deliciously Hot 2E1-8 F122”
I stirred all the reds
& purples I had from years ago
diluted with several sour cream containers
of water:
old tubes of Dioxine Purple
Permanent Alizarian Crimson
Cadmium Red Hue
Permanent Magenta
Permanent Rose —
I was going for Blood
but what I got
is Female Genitalia
The Hawk Basement 10:34am
Last Night I had to roll
up My Aquatic Foliage
as I had signed it off
unsuitably for My Husband’s
viewer-ship
& so It lies
on My Basement Floor
ready to be saturated
with RAID
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:49pm
The Cry of The Gull
tells Me where I am
where I want to be
beside The Ocean
in a house I love
with cats I love
and A Husband
I am grateful for
in The Morning
Joanna Gilman Hyde 