The usage of EYE vs I represents a mindset
which varies depending on how Eye am seeing myself.
Also, if anyone wants to delve into reading the entire collection, which here on this blog began in April of 2012, I recommend reading the complete work from the first blog post, moving forward sequentially.
As of this date, April 26, 2025, there are at least 3,250 poems.
Thank you all for being M(eye) Audience.
April 26, 2025
The Ships Galley, Shelburne, NS
10:07 pm
After getting up
w the cats @ 4:00 in the morning,
I went back to sleep
& for some peculiar & unknown reason
I dreamt of a caucasian mustached man
standing in the doorway
of my mother’s kitchen in Valley Cottage
who had an affliction:
a nearby friend declared that this man
“Was Peppered With Penises”
& that he, The Man, was prepared
to show me his hidden deformity
(despite another forthcoming declaration
that he did have his NORMAL one)
so he, The Man, pulled his pants down
& looking up
stood in the pose of a model
with one arm bent upward
& then lay down
somewhere beside my mother’s cupboard
to have me inspect
& count (if I wanted to)
his numerous & varied penises
each with it’s own characteristics,
when they, the penises,
(which were mostly little, some
shorter than others)
began to move, to gravitate
into line formation, like sides of a team
& lo & behold,
they, the penises,
began to open each their own eye
& talk.
Joanna Gilman Hyde 