Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Thank-U Letter 2 Robin Walker of The Tri-county Women’s Centre

The Hawk Corner Room

January 23, 2025

12:55 pm

Dearest Robin:

Thank U SO MUCH

4 “Being There 4 Me”

When M(eye) Kids Thought

Eye Needed 2 “See A Therapist” —

of All The Multitudinous

Psychiatrists

Doctors

Nurses

Pastors

Reverends

Ministers

Therapists

Councillors

Support Workers

& Lawyers

Eye Have Encountered

w/in The Past 32 Years

U Have Been The BEST

Friendliest, Funniest

Most Enjoyable

& Last Butt Not Least —

Most HELPFUL

(Eye Will Reserve Some Praise

4 Dr Andrew Ashley-Smith

of Bridgewater, NS

Who Stated In January 2017

“You Have NO DIAGNOSIS“)

It Is 2 U

That Eye Write

Today, Inspired

2 Let U Know

Via M(eye) Public Poetry Blog

That Eye Am FINE

Having Just Spent Nearly 2 Months

Re-vamping

M(eye) House & M(eye) Art

4 M(eye) Living Gallery —

(Which Eye Can’t Wait 4 U 2 See)

Re-vamping The Cats

w/ Daily Treats & Combings & Pettings

& Now, Today, The Realization

That Eye Am Going Through

M(eye) ENTIRE Poetry Blog

joannagilmanhyde.wordpress.com

Instituted In April of 2012

Replete w/ Over 3,200 Poems —

Re-vamping Every 1 of Them

w/ M(eye) Writing Style

4 All The World 2 See —

U Included —

Thanx 4 Ever

Your Friend

JGH

Leftover Bacon

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 23, 2025

9:30 am

This Morning Gully

Must Have Had His Fill

of Scrappy Bacon

(The Cheapest & Best)

Served Now In His Little White Bowl

w/ Handle

(So Eye Can Hold It For Him)

Perched On The Rail

of M(eye) Winter Deck —

This Morning He Took

2 Servings & Took Off

As Eye Prepared 2 Serve A 3rd —

Maybe Because Eye Violently Brushed Off

w/ White Gloved Hand

1 Nagging Speck of Black Lint

Stuck Against M(eye) New Blue Robe

& Gully Decided He Had Had

Enough

DAWN

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

December 8, 2023

Dawn Is Barely Breaking

Over The Gleaming Lights

of The Lobster Boats:

Eye Could Stand Here

All Morning

2 Watch The Sky

Evolve

Butt Eye Have Left

M(eye) Cozy Bed

2 Have M(eye) Cup of Tea

& So Eye Will Return

Perhaps 2 Write of “Thee” —

(Oh Brother!)