Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: September, 2024

Darlene’s Birthday

McDonalds, Barrington Passage

September 24, 2024

4:43 pm

Happiness Is The Way You Feel

One Day 2 The Next

One Hour 2 The Next

& So Eye Treated M(eye) Self

2 A Pedicure

& was asked if Eye wanted

A Manicure —

So Eye Said

“Eye Have The Time —

Yes, Eye Will Have One”

& Had M(eye) Nails

Toes & Hands

Painted Pink

In Honour

of M(eye) Very Special Friend:

Darlene Louisa Winfield Rennehan

NOTE: Had not had a manicure or pedicure in at least ten years.

Eye Danced

The Tomato-coloured Couch

September 21, 2024

11:15 am

Eye Danced

In M(eye) Spacious Living Room

2 An Audience

of 1 Siamese Cat

& 1 Fly

while M(eye) Omelette Sat

temporarily abandoned

In The Confines

of M(eye) Small Dining Room

Would Eye Miss

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

September 17, 2024

Would Eye Miss

The Dewy Spider Webs

luffing outside M(eye) Kitchen Sink?

Would Eye Miss

The Scraggly Apple

written about in earnest

decades ago?

Would Eye Miss

The 3 Remaining Cats

without Their Litter Box

& made to go outside?

Would Eye Miss

M(eye) Art Plastered

On M(eye) Walls —

M(eye) Furniture?

The Radio Playing

The French Station

Out of Moncton?

The Waves?

Eye Know Eye Would Miss

The Waves.

Friday The 13th

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

Friday The 13th of September 2024

40 Years Ago Eye Stood

On The Rooftop

of #5 World Trade Center

Painting A Giant Multicoloured Spiral

& Where Am Eye Today?

Alone In M(eye) House

On Cape Sable Island

In Nova Scotia —

The Place of M(eye) Dreams

of M(eye)  Mother’s Dreams

& Eye Am Planning 2 Show

The Memorabilia of Self Organizing Galaxy

for The Month of October

at Th’Yarc in Yarmouth

where ONE Person might read through

The Letters, Press Releases & Articles

Framed & Hanging

NOTE:  There will be no show at Th’Yarc — M(eye)Theory that Self Organizing Galaxy had something to do with the bombing in February of 1993 and the downing of the towers at 9/11, is too controversial an idea for Th’Yarc.

Hmmm …

The Duck Pond

Barrington Passage, NS

Late Afternoon

There’s A Very Little House

4 Sale In The Heart

Of Barrington Passage

Right Next 2 CIBC

& The Post Office.

It’s A Stroll Away

From The Duck Pond

In Front Of The Library

Where Eye Am Sitting Now

Enjoying The Fountain

While The Ducks R Nestled

On The Bank

Beside The Traffic

Which Is The Vitality

Of This Place Eye Call Home

The Atlantic Superstore

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

September 4, 2024

M(eye) Painter Friend in Bridgewater

is daring Me 2 write

another poem, This One

about walking 2 The Superstore

in Yarmouth —

Eye love 2 walk

(when Eye have a destination)

& will walk, maybe, in The Dead

of Winter

2 get small amounts of groceries

for M(eye) New House

on Cumberland Street

in The Heart of Downtown Yarmouth —

M(eye) Newest of Homes

NOTE: This was written at an unsure time when Eye was mometarily considering moving from The Hawk.

Eye Am Thinking of Moving

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

September 4, 2024

Eye Am Thinking of Moving

to Yarmouth —

The Very Western End

of The Province

where The Slogan

“ON THE EDGE OF EVERYWHERE”

rings true.

Eye would Live In Town

in a house Eye am 2 look at

on Friday

where Eye would store M(eye) Paintings

in a concrete basement

& display a few

from a glassed-in front porch.

Eye would have to get a job

& live A New Single Life

where Eye do have some new friends

& where Eye volunteer

in 2 Arts Organizations —

Eye might even get rid of M(eye) Car

& Walk 2 The Superstore. . .