The Hawk Front Yard 10:20am
I have a rose bush
planted for a life
of the sibling to My Children
never seen except
encased by an ultra-sound screen
when He/She was declared
too small
and I had to wait a week
The Hawk Queen Bed 9:11pm
“It’s a shame She has no insight,”
said a psychiatric nurse to My Husband
one of those 23 years
when I was drugged
for the duration
of The Prime of My Life —
well today I have more “insight”
than all the staff and doctors
put together
and I got to have a manicure
in the company of My Daughter
attended by an eager Asian
named Cong Lee
Who asked Me
where We’d been shopping
The Hawk Queen Bed 8:17am
Once I had a pretty coat —
the last time I wore it was to see
Our Lawyer from The Hyde Inquiry —
it was flared with a high-cut waist
and Two Silver Buttons
but I gave it away
years ago
to The Salvation Army
when I got rid of My Black Jesus Clothes —
this morning I woke with an anxious thought
regretting My Disposal
but My Comforting Husband
tried to reassure Me:
“It was the drugs.”
The Hawk Queen Bed 7:55am
I want to write about the big spider web
wet, I saw this morning
at My Kitchen Window — with a new one
a little one getting sewn write before My Eyes
I watched it until it was finished
and the coffee was ready
and then I looked at the scraggly apple
to see it festooned with more wet webs
and then I looked beyond
to the scrub forest
and saw the dew-laiden trees
each with more than one
enormous galactic web
spreading out through
My Extended View in front
of the early morning sun
wet on the Atlantic Ocean
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:51am
I stood bare-footed beside My Rose
above It, twice
and first I heard a Blue Jay
and second My Mother’s Chickadee
and as I looked at the numerous blossoms
I heard the surf of The Cape
and reveled in the fog droplets
upon the fertilized leaves
The Hawk Beach 7:55pm
Eye had just started to write
The Guzzle is @ Its deepest
when the incoming tide
churns its way toward Me
along the far edge
caught in the evening light
like a mini Grand Canyon —
then Eye heard a BUZZ —
a giant flying insect?
Eye looked overhead & guessed
Eye was being spied upon
by M(eye) 1st Ever Drone!
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 2:16pm
I have planted My First Rose Bush
“Knock-out Pink”
under Our New Sign saying The Blairs
in iridescent white
printed with a Blue Jay —
Chicken Polenta is made for The Kids
and can be baked anytime
and We’ve been invited to Their Grandfather’s
Memorial Service Friday Afternoon —
tomorrow night My Tree-planting Darlings
and one Mexican Collie
are to be collected
from the airport four hours away
and I will be making ham sandwiches
to take
and a Duncan Hines carrot cake
fortified with chopped pecans
just to have on hand
The Hawk West Desk Window 9:19pm
I hate to close the shade
on the last remnants of sunset
but I can hear The Waves
through the bathroom window
and so all is well
with Me.
The Hawk Beach 7:50pm
Last night I saw one sizeable sand castle
with a tunnel and moat and bridge —
tonight one hump of it
and the bridge of wood
remain —
farther along The Hawk Beach
an additional creation is ringed
with blue and purple mussel shells
sporting crab claws and sea gull feathers
and a third,
also from last night,
sets unscathed
with pink crab shells adorning
each of its four turrets
Joanna Gilman Hyde 