Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: July, 2024

The Sun Hat

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

July 30, 2024

6:15 am

Yesterday Eye Traveled Out

2 McNutt’s Island

My Mother’s Paradise

From Long Ago

2 Find Her Little Red House

Now Painted Blue

Down The Grassy Lane

Once Called “The Low Road”

We Passed A Line of Laundry

Hung In The Sun

On Our Walk 2 The Now Defunct

Cape Roseway Light Station

several kilometers south

On Our Way Back

Eye Wondered If Eye Should Visit

M(eye) Mother’s Grave

In The Lower Orchard

of  Her Island House

Butt

When Eye Saw Just The Sun Hat

of M(eye) Mother’s Successor

Sitting Where M(eye) Mother Sat

Eye Did Not Want 2 Intrude

Seated

Tusket Falls Brewery, Tusket, NS

July 27, 2024

40 Years Ago

Eye Sat Dressed Up

Against The Wall

of A Japanese Piano Bar

In The Company of Other Young Women

Lighting Cigarettes

Filling Tumblers

w/ Ice & Watered-down Chivas Regal

For Korean Men

Japanese Customers

Who Asked About M(eye) Life

& Eye Told Them Eye Was Creating

The Bracelet for The Statue of Liberty

& Drew M(eye) Design

On Countless Cocktail Napkins

One Man Named Yoshi

Gave Me $2,000

Toward M(eye) Project

Butt Eye Spent It

On 2 Woolen Chinese Rugs

& Moved 2 Nova Scotia

M(eye) Friend

Yarmouth, NS

Eye Have A Friend —

A Gambling Friend —

Who Drives A Red Convertible

& Spends & Spends

On Beer & Pop

& Slot Machines

& Chocolate Bars

& Ice Cream

& Fudgesicles

& Cigarettes —

She Owes Me A Long-standing Debt

Eye May Never Collect

Note: Debt was forgiven December 20, 2024

Eye Have Stood

McDonald’s, Barrington Passage, NS

July 22, 2024

8:51 am

Eye Have Stood

In McDonald’s

Dressed In Day-time Evening Wear

Contemplating The Infinite Characteristics

of Sperm & Eggs

Which Characterize Us Fundamentally —

There R No Other Factors

Biological or Otherwise —

& When We Mess w/ Them

We R Ruining

Our Greatest Creation

Looking Out

Fredericton, NB

July 14, 2024

9:30 am

Eye Like 2 Face Windows:

On The Digby Ferry 2 St. John

Eye Sat On A Love-seat Sofa

Facing The Starboard Side

2 Relax As The Horizon Line

Moved Up & Down

Here Eye Am In A Tim Horton’s

Waiting For The Bus

2 Take Me Back

2 St. John

& Eye Am Looking Out

2 A Grass-trimmed Parking Lot

w/ The Tim Horton’s Sign

Always Fresh

& The Florescent Billboard Beyond

A mustached man

in a black Mustang convertible

faces me drinking coffee

like I am.

Dial Log

Fredericton, NB

She wore skimpy turquoise

& was an indeterminate age —

an unnatural blonde

sharing the frozen peanut butter dessert

w/ a guy who did all the talking

while She checked Her Phone —

rain came

as He paid The Bill —

He left to get His Vehicle

while She pony-tailed Her Skimpy Hair

in preparation

for Her Ride

in His New Jeep/Truck

as bright blue

as Her Gym Dress

w/ Its Hidden Phone Pocket

From Fredericton, NB

Eye moved away

from an attractive woman

w/ a tabby cat

upon Her Lap

2 sit instead

beside a French Man

w/ a labradoodle

in the open air

beer garden

beyond the walking bridge

in downtown Fredericton —

Eye told Him M(eye) Life Story

or at least parts of It —

just because He asked

& because Eye knew, somehow

that Eye would never see Him again

July 4, 2024