Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: August, 2016

ONE AT A TIME

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 3:15pm

Now when I reach

for My Life Glass

it is not to quench

My Unquenchable Thirst

drug-induced —

that craving is gone forever

now when I reach

for My Beautiful Glass

it is to take in

the moderate fare

of My Drug-free* Living

by one or two sips

 

*still taking 1mg Clonazepam for sleep to be weaned off

after My Children leave

THE HIGHEST TIDE

The Hawk Beach 8:10pm

Tonight I am immersed

in a blue paler

than the sky

after a light rain

when I almost didn’t bring My Book

the weightiness of My Words

has Me sitting on damp sand

at the edge of the tide

as darker waves undulate

beneath sunlight in The East —

OH!