Joanna Gilman Hyde

June 25th, 2025

The Hawk Deck

10:30 am

This Is What You Call

Deck Living:

stepping barefoot onto weathered boards

(one rotten)

2 hear The Sea & See It Sparkle

2 feel The Bug-free Breeze

(except for the odd fly who might get in the kitchen)

2 languish in A Leopard-spotted Night Shirt

(appreciated once by a non-lover)

amongst The Newly Potted Blossoms

of A Planter’s Delight

while The Scraggly Apple accommodates

The Occasional Blue Jay —

now 2 drink Peppermint Tea

w/ Mexican Honey

(courtesy of Eliza’s Boyfriend) —

Eye could sit here all morning

in M(eye) Surprisingly Comfortable Folding Chair of slatted wood

(2 wooden Adirondack Chairs

are due next week, courtesy of Eliza)

writing poems & drinking, drinking

Tea & Sunshine —

It’s The Momentary Life of Leisure

& Eye am not minding being alone

except for The Cats

& Gully The 3rd

Who’s already had His Breakfast

of ancient canned beans —

He’s Off

June 25th, 2025

The Hawk Deck

8:38 am

Yesterday Eye bought a six-pack

of Red Petunias on sale

(it was the last pack @ Wilson’s

& M(eye) 1st ever purchase

of Petunias 2 plant)

2 go in a squarish concrete planter

hidden under M(eye) Deck

& completely forgotten

(Eye have no recollection of how or where

such a relic came into M(eye) Possession)

so Eye put driveway gravel

into its non-draining bottom

& filled it half-way

w/ scrambled dirt from M(eye) vacant flower bed

(vacant except for Poppies now)

& carefully extracted the rooted red blooms

nestling each pod

carefully into the old concrete hold

& VOILA!!

It came 2 LIFE —

The Red of The Petunias

is not the same Red

as M(eye) plastic pot of Geraniums

set upon The Glass-topped Table

taking in direct morning sun —

The Petunias now gracing

the cat-scratched post by the steps

are an Orange-y Red

as opposed 2 The Fuscia Red

of The Geraniums —

so now Eye have 2 Shades

2 compare

& neither is Blood-red —

That Colour has no place

out here on M(eye) Weathered Deck

(while Eye steep M(eye) 3rd Cup of Tea

& wait for 9:11

2 drink It…)