Joanna Gilman Hyde

Who was that Man

Eye dreamed Eye was kissing?

Refined visage with grey moustache

He stood in a darkened room

Eye hesitated, butt went toward Him

to kiss Him lightly

then diligently

First big ticket item sold on consignment in a store in Lunenburg called Comfort and Joy to a woman who lives in Lunenburg Nova Scotia

Yesterday on my drive home

Eye observed a mystery in the sky:

The Bulbous Flock of Starlings

undulating in cloud formation

over and across the side of the road

parked on to watch —

They flew like a giant school of fish

as one unit

my first viewing of such phenomena

and phenomenal They were —

finally landing, matting the road-side wires

with Their chattering blackness

The Application

On Facebook Marketplace

Eye have revealed m(eye) barest

Alteration:

A single purple sequin

Upon the sharpened elbow

of a Disney Mother

What is Image?

Is It clothes, braces

a doctor’s job?

Or is It The Music

We listen to at night

when We can dance

like EVERYBODY is looking?

Eye walked in that Western Light

filling the sky with gold

Eye walked and walked

and got sprinkled upon

deciding I’ll not grow old