Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

March 23, 2025

After 8:00 am

Eye Held Onto A Dream —

M(eye) Nova Scotia Dream —

For 32 Years.

This March 31st It Becomes

32 Years :

The Shower of Silver Lights —

The Little Man —

& Where Has It Gotten Me?

Alone In M(eye) Kitchen —

@ Least  Eye Have A Kitchen

W/ Sun Streaming In —

Gulls Outside —

Where Did They Go? — Oh,

Here They Are —

Settling In Beside The Scraggly Apple

& The Cats?

Where Are The Cats?

Here Comes Molly —

& The Art?

Eye Am Surrounded B(eye)

M(eye) Art — Eye Just  Read

Bird Shadows

Wherein The Narrator Admits

@ Least She Has Her Art

@ Age 37 —

Eye Will Be 64

On Canadian Tax Day.

March 21, 2025

The Hawk Queen Bed

The Middle of The Night

Eye Laughed @ The World —

It Didn’t Help.

Eye Laughed HA HA — HA!!

2 Show That God Is Sardonic

Afterall

Butt Only M(eye) Daughter Heard Me

Taped Me

Took Me 2 The Hospital

Because Eye Was Unable 2 Have Her

Understand

“Things R Not Sequential” —

She May Have Gotten

Goldilocks & The 3 Bears

Is The Worst Fairy Tale:

Signifying The Regulation

Of Something As Mundane As Oatmeal —

We Have Made Our Food

Into High-end Art

In Order 2 Make It Appealing —

Appalling.

Eye Was Appalled — HA HA — HA!!

(Probably Journal # 86)

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

March 14, 2025

Time No Longer Exists

(Except On The Oven Clock, 7:19 am)

@ Dawn On This Newest Of Days

W/ Molly Rubbing The Upper Right Hand Pages —

Eye Sit Upright

In M(eye) Grandmother’s Wrought Iron Chair

2 Recall The Earliest Blush

Of Pink, Rose, Vermillion

Captured In M(eye) M(eye)nd

Minutes Ago

Against The Silhouetted Line

Of Scrub Spruce

Eye Have Come 2 Favour

Bounding M(eye) Back Property

Devoid Of Any Trees Eye Own

W/ The Exception Of M(eye) Beloved

Scraggly Apple, Barkless Now —

Never 2 Be Cut Down.

Oh Gully Has Just Landed

On His Deck Rail —

Snow White His Head

& Bulbous Body

W/ Little Feathers Luffing —

Oh Eye Love Him So —

w/ Jerome On M(eye) Lap

Eye Watched Gully’s New Girl

Now Named Princess

Land On The Deck

To Try Her Hand

@ What  Was Left 2 Be Had

From Gully’s Little White Bowl:

After Approaching w/ Caution

She Got Her Delicate Fill

As Gully Preened Himself

@ The Base Of The Scraggly Apple

& Jerome Got His Fill

Of Delicate Caressing

M(eye) Beautiful Gully

w/ His Now Snowy Countenance

Is Paired Up Again

w/ Another Gull Slightly Smaller

Who Came 2 The Deck

For A Speck Of Cat Food —

Butt Gully Pecked Her Head

As She Went For The Little White Bowl —

What Does She Get

Out Of Her Side

Of The Relationship?

If Eye Had The Wherewithall

Eye Would Feed Every Gull

Bacon For The Massses

As The Fishing/Lobstering Industry

May Be On Its Last Legs

Eye have a Pill-oh

Leftover from The Marriage

2 Dr Liar —

Designed w/ a Declevity

For Anyone’s Head —

Used Now 2 Prop Up

M(eye) Left Knee

The Way Eye Used 2

Sleep w/ M(eye) Left Knee

Flung Over The Hip

Of M(eye) Villainous Husband

Eye am off medication.

After half a dozen injections

Against M(eye) Will

Eye am PILL FREE.

Now when Time no longer exists

M(eye) Life is Free, finally

After 32 years —

Butt Time is irrelevant.

Now Eye will make M(eye) Art

Uninhibited.

Eye will Fly

Around This World

W/ M(eye) True Love

As Eye have always wanted

& Bee Happy…

Note: made the difficult decision 2 resume medication on March 20th, after being “sold” on “quality of life” & “relationship w children” by my psychiatrist of over 3 years, Dr Ah-med