Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch

December 24, 2024

7:25 am

Eye Live Now w/ The Gentilest of Cats:

Milk-mustached Molly sleeps @ M(eye) Head

& dabs M(eye) Face w/ 1 Paw

Claws Intact

while Moulan, The Beautiful Siamese

w/ Great Blue Eyes

had Her Claws ripped out

15 years ago

before She was dumped

off @ The Shakespeare House —

She likes The Warm Floor

in The Hallway

where Their Litter-less Box

gets cleaned every time They pee —

& then there’s Jerome,

named by Eliza —

The Lion of A Cat

w/ Great Sad Eyes,

Who Found His Way That 1st December

Eye was Here w/ Dr Blair —

Found His Way Through Snow & Ice —

all HE desires

is to be lovingly petted

& combed.

All 3 are resting now —

Jerome w/ His Paws crossed

on The Far End

of The Tomato-coloured Couch

Eye picked out on sale

from a local furniture store

14 years ago

when Dr Blair said Eye could have

Any Piece.

Moulan sits beside Me,

purring freely

& Eye’m not sure where Molly is,

though She has taken

to lounging in The Arms of God Chair

found on The Side of The Road

set up in The Utility Room

down in The Basement

which is almost ready

to be displayed

as 1 Formal Room of 14

Here in M(eye) Hawk House

Living Gallery

Open for 2025

2 Show M(eye) Art

M(eye) Ancestors’ Art

M(eye) Friends’ Art

& 2 Show How Eye Live

as A Single Woman

in A Perfect Kitchen for 1

in A Perfect Bedroom

w/ leftover  graffiti

M(eye) Kids thought Eye should paint over

Eye Believe Eye Am Happy Here

Now in This Place of Staged Living

–Eye have not ventured out

through The Ice that came

The Last Night of Volunteering

@ Yarmouth Creatives

when Eye bought A Painting

by A New Friend

2 Hang in M(eye) Little Dining Room

butt neglected 2 pay for It.

It’s called Love Jacket —

an intricate construction

of delicately painted strips of paper

shaped to form a Michael Jackson Jacket

against a Background of Gold,

framed w/ more delicate paper strips

of Predominantly Pink —

& Eye Love It,

Hanging Above Eliza’s Greenish Swirl

from When She Was A Kid.

She and Her Brother Peak

& Peak’s Girlfriend Chantal

are in Campeche Mexico

now, for XMiss

& Peak’s 37th Birthday

on December 27th —

Eliza is not seeing enough

of Her Work-aholic Boyfriend Haime

equipt w/ His 11 Year Old Daughter

Eliza has yet 2 meet —

butt They are All Having A Good Time

as Eye can see in The Photos They Send

on Facebook —

The Social Contraption

Eye begrudgingly partake in

Here w/ The Cats Eye neglected

last summer

when Eye  did not want to be

in This House —

& used any excuse Eye could find

2 Abandon My Place —

then Eye had no apparent purpose

& drove & drove to Friends

& Galleries & Volunteering & even

tried to get A Job

@ My Kids Reccomendation —

got 1 w/ The Tri-county Regional Centre for Education

& lost it 6 days later

when Eye wrote

supposedly revealing poems

about The Students Eye found Inspirational.

The day Eye was officially fired

(March 28th, 2024)

was The Day Dr Blair’s Cat Cami

Died in Her Condominium —

Died while Eye was being interviewed

as to why

a “breach of confidentiality”

would prohibit Me from working

w/ TCRCE ever again —

She was still Alive before The Video Call

@ 10:00am

& was completely Dead when It was over

20 minutes later.

Cami got put out in The Scrub Spruce

behind The Hawk House

entombed in Her Condo

as Eye may be someday

(if Eye die)

entombed by The Sea

like Annabelle Lee

Dead After Living

Here On The Hawk

In A Show House

built by neighbouring fishermen

as Someone’s Dream House

25 years ago, fatefully 2 House All

The Contents

of A Life of Creation

& The Lives of The Cats — Mumbo,

Molly, Moulan, Jerome, Swampie, Cami, Abby (briefly a foster cat Who died not wanting Me to leave Her Side)

& M(eye) Great Big Wonderful Astro —

All Who Have Joined Me

w/ M(eye) Pet Gull — Gully The 3rd

& His Various Companions & Offspring —

Here In Our Existence

of Spectacular Beauty, Desireous Longing

& Quest .

Merry XMiss — May It Be The Last