The Hawk West Desk Window 10:30am
Random House Unabridged Dictionary 1971
Definition 3:
A PALL (of distaste — my word)
Covers, shrouds, or
Overspreads,
Esp. with darkness
Or gloom
The Hawk Front Door 6:55pm
A 4″ white gull feather
Breathes suspended
By microfilaments
Of less than a spider’s work —
A symbol of Hope
Peace
Forgiveness?
Love —
Any mushy
Word
You
Like?
My Hawk Bedroom 9:45pm
I’ve been touched
By two men —
One who gives me strength
To alleviate pain
And one who saps me
For my brain
GOOD NIGHT NURSE
My Rocking Chair 9:00pm
Oh sun how Eye hate you!
You vile hunk of
Liquid metal
You can rot forever
From your slime —
Eye detest your vulgar
Comings and goings —
Why don’t you ever stay?
What R U afraid of?
Must you stare at me
Day after day
Coming unbidden
Through my West
Through my East
(At least you’re Silver there)
I’ve had about enough of you —
I hate your sleezy guts
(If you have any)
The Hawk Deck 2:22pm
Eye could very easily
Rub out Your Yellow Star —
Give Me a Moment
Like the One Eye had
A million years ago
And I’ll work for You
If provoked
I’ll work
The Hawk Deck 11:45am
The Daisies R M(eye) Universe
Oh how I love Them so —
I picked My One @ random
And de-flowered Him to know
Yes He loves me
Now I’m sure
And tell you
I’ll be true
For years & years I’ve longed for Him
Butt now Eye’s
Foolin U
My Bedroom Rocking Chair 11:11am
This morning when I woke
@ 6:00
Eye did not know for the life of me
How old it was I could not be —
I wondered if I was 22
Or if I was 23
Then I remembered I’m “56”
And said, “Oh yeah”
2 X It
My Hawk Bedroom 11:30am
Dr —– has been known
To be of greatest comfort
He has the look in his blue eyes
Of consolation and confidence —
He pulled me in as his patient
Twenty years ago
He councelled me on my true love
Pushing to let go
I didn’t listen
Never could
And so was thrown the dice
Of drugs galore
From other docs
With Dr —–‘s
Advice.
Eye stayed immune
From his control
As blind as he could work
Until one night before my food
He placed a pill, The Jerk
At my table of supper cooked
By me I was his wife
#3 as I lay bare
His Fallacy of Life
My Hawk Bedroom 10:22am
Don’t ever let your husband make
His concoction of whipped cream and lace:
“Bullet-proof coffee”
Served from a blender —
He just might whack you
In the face
My Hawk Bedroom 10:00am
Yes he came at me
And pushed me on my bed —
But it’s what he said
I cannot erase
It’s forever in my head:
What every woman
Should never hear
From the man who spread her legs
“I could rape you”
Hear and now —
Am I ever seeing RED
Joanna Gilman Hyde 