Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: April, 2025

Silver Time

April 11, 2025

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

9:05 am

Eye can write again

about The Silver Light

upon M(eye) Ocean

Bright

in The Clouded Sun —

a carry-over

from The Shower

upon M(eye) Head

& down M(eye) Sides —

engulfed Eye was

32 years & 11 days ago —

Eye Stand, Still In Its Might

Vacated?

April 10, 2025

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

8:50 am

Gully & His Princess

R not here Today

In The Bright Sun

of Early April.

Eye had a bowl

of chicken stock bones

for Them 2 gobble

saved for later in the fridge

should They return

2 Their Deck Rail

Remainder

April 10, 2025

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

8:26 am

Eye can see The Diamond of Light

embedded within The Crystal Decanter

Stop

placed by Me on the window sill

of M(eye) Hawk Kitchen Outpost —

All That Is Left

from that hand-blown wine vessel

broken by Me

22 Million Years Ago

The WAIT Of Grief

April 6, 2025

The Hawk Queen Bed

6:15 am

Eye Have Weighted @ Least

One Zillion Years

2 Lay A Stone

On The Grave Of M(eye) Cat

& Now Eye Realize

Eye Have The Choice

Of 2 Black Cut Stones

Leftover From Weighing Down

STRATOSPHERIC UNIVERSE Circa 2017

(which blew apart anyway) —

1 Trapezoidal Thick Black Stone

Rests Still On The Southeast Corner

Of M(eye) Front Yard Canvas

While The 2nd Shiny Black Stone —

Just Thought Of Now —

(in M(eye) 64th year)

Lays Flat, Wider

Against The Southeast Corner

Of M(eye) Hawk House

Here, Where A Flower Bed

Never Got Made

Eye Stood On M(eye) Deck

& Just Saw A Bird

Land On The Top

Of A Singular Scrub Spruce

Framed Between The Left & Right

Branches Of M(eye) Scraggly Apple —

The Bird Was A Crow

Who Cawwed 3 Times

Before He Flew Off —

Inside To Write

Eye Got To The Part

Where Eye Went Back Out

W/ Journal & Pen

To Add The Close Sounds

Of Ocean, Other Birds

& Stood Again

In View Of The Scraggly Frame

To See & Hear

A Crow Land Again

To Repeat His Refrain

Eye Am That Mermaid

Sitting On A Rock

Drawn Through Black Crayon

By Pubescent Me

Taped 2 M(eye) Mother’s Refrigerator

In Valley Cottage:

Profiled In Colour

Under The Black Overlay —

She Gazed @ The Sea

As Eye Do Now

From M(eye) Sun-filled Corner Room

On Cape Sable Island

Over 50 Years Later