M(eye) House

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

M(eye) House is a Monument

2 M(eye) 59 Years

w/ M(eye) Children’s Art Work

intermingled w/ Mine

w/ 5 companionable Cats

leftover from a marriage

based on sex & home-cooked meals

(Eye was rarely taken out)

w/ a sea gull named Gully

(& His Friend “Interloper”)

whom Eye trained 2 say “breakfast”

for a piece of bacon —

w/ the bulk of M(eye) Poetry

lining M(eye) only downstairs book case

w/ 1 600 page volume

up on M(eye) closet shelf