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