Joanna Gilman Hyde

April 24, 2025

The Hawk Deck

5:17 am

At 5:00 This Morning

I got up to set up

My dried-out wooden folding chair

from its basement winter

to sit like a bathrobed apparition

upon my unfurnished deck

to hear audible condensation

sliding off my new metal roof

along with peepers still dripping —

blackened scrub spruce tops

decorated my dawning glow

as I absorbed this ameliorating display

accompanied by Golden Crescent Moon

perfected with Planetary Accent.