Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Eye Don’t Fit In

The Tomato-coloured Couch

February 25, 2024

Into Institutions Eye Go

Only 2 Get Rejected —

M(eye) Son Says Society

Is Made Up of Institutions

& Eye Don’t Belong In Any of Them

(M(eye) Observation):

The Institution of Marriage

The Institution of School

The Institution of The Military

(M(eye) Son’s Institution)

The Health Care System —

Only The World of Art

Can Save Me Now

Where Eye Am Free 2 Write

Dance & Paint

Whatever Eye Care 2 Express

Note:  left out The Institution of Religion

Dream Recollection

The Hawk Queen Bed

October 10, 2024

5:53 am

Eye Was In Peter’s Girlfriend’s House

Butt There Were All These Other People

Supposedly From The Weslyan Church

w/ Masks

(stylized masks as opposed to medical).

One Eye Leaned Against On A Couch

Thinking She Was A Pillow —

She Got Mad @ Me —

Eye Was Trying 2 Take Care of Baby Eliza

2 Give Her A Bath —

She Seemed 2 Need A Bath.

Eye Asked Peter If Eye Could Talk 2 Him

Privately

Butt He Was Reluctant.

He Knew Eye Wanted 2 Take Eliza w/ Me.

Eye Wanted 2 Take Her 2 M(eye) House.

Eye Wanted 2 Care For Her.

Eye Wanted Her 2 Live w/ Me

@ Least Temporarily.

Eye Told Peter, “Peter, Eye Have Lived

The Loneliest Times of M(eye) Life

In M(eye) House

& Eye Want M(eye) Daughter w/ Me.

Eye Can Take Care of Her Now.

Eye Live w/ 3 Cats Eye Neglect. 

Eye Like Them, Butt Eye Don’t Love Them.”

There Were Gates Everywhere

& Unfolding Stairs

2 Try 2 Get Out of Peter’s Girlfriend’s House.

Eye Said 2 Him, “You Have (Her Name) Now.”

Later, He Said He Wished Eye Hadn’t Said That

Within The Confines of Her House

Because He Wasn’t Sure About Her.

There Were More People Around

Who Were Doing Drugs

& One Man Seemed 2 Be A Pedophile.

Eventually Eye Laid Eliza In A Crib.

It Had Old Food On Layers of Bedding

& Paint Chips & Old Makeup

In The Bottom End.

It Was Disgusting.

That’s When Eye Said 2 Everybody:

“This Is All A Dream

& Eye Should Be Having M(eye) Child

In M(EYE) House —

Eye’ve Been Trying 2 Get Her 2 M(EYE) House.”

Other Women Laughed @ Me

When Eye Said, This Is All A Dream

& Eye Thought They Were Sizing Me Up

For Mental Instability.

When Eye Had Finally Said, “This Is All A Dream”

A Transvestite Super Woman Appeared

Lying On The Floor

& Assured Me That She/He

Would Help Me Get 2 M(eye) House —

Then Eye woke Up.

NOTE: Eye Was Holding Baby Eliza

Throughout The Dream.

When She Was Laid In The Filthy Crib

She Was Laid Down Like A Discarded Doll.

She Said She Was Very Sleepy

& That She Needed 2 Take A Bath

Butt That She Was Very Sleepy.

COLOURS

written by assignment

“Use colour to express what’s around you as THINGS”

June 1, 2024

On The Last Day of May

Eye Drove Through The Evening Sun

Along Highway 103

Lit Lavender Were The Trees

w/ Solid Green of New Leaf

& Blossomed White

Dabbed Here & There

Like A Landscape Painting —

This Morning June 1st

Eye Opened M(eye) Eyes

2 Clouds of Pink

& Got Up 2 Write

Deck Furniture

The Hawk Deck

May 29, 2024

8:00 am

This Morning Eye Set Out

M(eye) Glass Top Table

Under The Heralding of The Jay

So Eye Can Eat M(eye) Breakfast Here

On The Deck

On M(eye) Single Folding Chair

& Drink M(eye) Tea

2-minute Slice of Life

written by assignment

May 27, 2024

Once when Eye was 13

Eye sat in A Tree

on A Neighbour’s Property

& The Neighbour’s Son

Older Than Me

stood below

& asked If Eye Had A Boyfriend —

“No” Eye said

& He said:

“We’ll Have 2 Find You One —

You’re A Cute Cookie”

NOTE 2 M(eye) Readers:

The Hawk Dining Room

January 22, 2025

10:53 am

Recently Eye have been re-vamping all poems going back Eye am not sure how far, & have come across a few which did not get posted.  Here follows several previously unpublished poems from 2024 & earlier:

After The Dance

The Hawk Queen Bed

January 20, 2025

6:32 am

How Can Eye

Lie in Bed

when Molly & Jerome are Out?

Eye went 2 A Dance

Last Night

& Enjoyed M(eye) Self

in Black

w/ Black Iridescent Salvation Army Beads

around M(eye) Neck

w/ Vintage Earrings Dangling

Eye Danced 2 Old Country Rock

w/ M(eye) Friend Charmaine

& Her Friend Marcella —

Eye Ate The Snack

put out by Lions Hall Volunteers

& Left @ 12:30

2 Drive Home

in The Rain

2 Let 2 of 3 Cats

Out

M(eye) Kitchen Outpost Piece/Peace

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 19, 2025

7:19 am

Eye am sitting again

in The Wrought Iron Chair

made in Alabama

75 Years Ago —

Illuminated

by The Swath of Dawn

Marking M(eye) Horizon

BLACK

w/ Sparks of Lobster Boats

interspersed along The Line —

The Edge —

of Our Time

What Could Be Greater??

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 17, 2025

8:36 am

What Could Be Greater

than Gully on His Rail

eating snow after His 2 Pieces of Bacon —

Molly playing w/ The Ribbon

dangling from This Journal

(Journal # 84) (counted 3 X’s)

Jerome contemplating going

Out —

Moulan, Who’s Deaf,

sitting complacently in The Hall

(on a floor that’s heated)

& of course The Sky

layden w/ winter banks

of Copious Cloud —

The Colours

of M(eye) Morning Gull