Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: January, 2025

From The Arms of God Chair:

The Hawk Utility Room

January 5, 2025

3:45 am

What was so alluring

about Dr Blair?

Is This Poem

even worth writing?

(pause 2 get more tea)

Just slathered orange-smelling

hotel lotion on M(eye) Face

standing in M(eye) Newly Appreciated

Kitchen

lit w/ one Night Light…

M(eye) Dearest Luke:

The Hawk Utility Room

January 3, 2025

6:15 am

You could have been housed

here in M(eye) Living Gallery —

in “Peak’s Room”

decked w/ ART in The Basement

2 do Your Prolific Writing

2 work on Your Book titled

“PILLS”

(which Eye am eager 2 read)

butt You’re Caught In The Trap

of The Psychiatric Industry

which does not recognize

Your Talents

does not recognize

Your Exquisite Individuality

& has You pumped down

on 5 different medications

all of which Eye believe

are harming Your Wonderful Brain

in an effort 2 “stabilize”

Beautiful You —

You Who have lost Your Mother,

Your Grandmother, Cat & House

in Shelburne, The Place

You Loved, butt which turned

It’s back on You

because of Your “Psychiatric History”

— You R Stigmatized —

like Me, like M(eye) Brother

(The Late Howard Talbot Walden Hyde)   

& Eye am left at Odds w/ The Program

which encases You Against Your Will —

Or R U Complacent?

How Can That Be?               

Get Out Dear Luke — Get Out — —    

The World Needs You —

Your Unique Creativity —

Your Sensitivity —

Your Wonderful Humour —

Your Enthusiasm for Life —

& EYE HEART U                                    

L  — U — K — E !!

The Only Dance

The Hawk Queen Bed

January 3, 2025

4:26 am

The Only Dance

Eye Ever Had

w/ M(eye) X 2nd Husband

was Awkward At Best —

(We weren’t even married yet)

Appearing In Public

@ The Barrington Lions Hall

Hosted By The RCMP

@ Xmiss Time

w/  Me In The Dress of Midnight

(what did Eye ever do w/ That

Clingy Butt Loose Item of Black

Embossed w/ Drips & Globs

of Silver?)

The Floor Seemed 2 Bounce

& Eye Felt Fat —

Was Eye?

Eye Did Wear A Size 13 Pink Chiffon

when We were mistakenly married

August 14, 2004

@ a ceremony which was more than

Awkward —

everyone left the reception

@ Dr Blair’s Office

for Me to clean up

like a bad dream

— there was no honeymoon —

(supposedly because Dr Blair

was recovering from back surgery

2 weeks prior)

& Eye went along w/ All

This Bullshit —

riding on a horse The Next Morning

w/ M(eye) Attractive 2nd Cousin

from Jacksonville, Florida

Who must have wondered

What Was Wrong.

2025

The Hawk Utility Room

January 1, 2025

7:00 am

The 1st & Last

Portrait of Jesus

Signed This Morning

& Hung w/ Great Care

Low 2 The Floor

of M(eye) Completed Heart

of M(eye) Show House

titled M(eye) Living Gallery —

glinted @ Me

as Eye Stood 2 Look

from The Center

of M(eye) New Space

from where The Ice Block Chandelier

is Destined 2 Hang Above —

The Very Top of Jesus’ Head

Held The Star

B(eye) M(eye) Artist’s Hand

2 Glint & Glare

w/ Precious Light

Eye Hold So Dear —

The Light of Perfection,

Grace, Hope, Dignity

emanating from The Final Piece

of M(eye) Creation

Here in This Blessed House

where Eye can Sit

or Stand

or Dance

or Crawl

in The Sublimity

of Life

w/ 3 Cats 2 talk 2 & pet

& Gully 2 feed & watch

w/ The Radio Broadcasting

Hardy French Songs

&  A Room 2 Rise 2:

The Upstairs Corner Room

Where Eye Am Now

2 Finish This Poem

as God’s Dawn

Blankets M(eye) Morning Sky

in The Orange Light

of Promise.