The Tomato-coloured Couch
September 21, 2024
11:15 am
Eye Danced
In M(eye) Spacious Living Room
2 An Audience
of 1 Siamese Cat
& 1 Fly
while M(eye) Omelette Sat
temporarily abandoned
In The Confines
of M(eye) Small Dining Room
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
September 17, 2024
Would Eye Miss
The Dewy Spider Webs
luffing outside M(eye) Kitchen Sink?
Would Eye Miss
The Scraggly Apple
written about in earnest
decades ago?
Would Eye Miss
The 3 Remaining Cats
without Their Litter Box
& made to go outside?
Would Eye Miss
M(eye) Art Plastered
On M(eye) Walls —
M(eye) Furniture?
The Radio Playing
The French Station
Out of Moncton?
The Waves?
Eye Know Eye Would Miss
The Waves.
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
Friday The 13th of September 2024
40 Years Ago Eye Stood
On The Rooftop
of #5 World Trade Center
Painting A Giant Multicoloured Spiral
& Where Am Eye Today?
Alone In M(eye) House
On Cape Sable Island
In Nova Scotia —
The Place of M(eye) Dreams
of M(eye) Mother’s Dreams
& Eye Am Planning 2 Show
The Memorabilia of Self Organizing Galaxy
for The Month of October
at Th’Yarc in Yarmouth
where ONE Person might read through
The Letters, Press Releases & Articles
Framed & Hanging
NOTE: There will be no show at Th’Yarc — M(eye)Theory that Self Organizing Galaxy had something to do with the bombing in February of 1993 and the downing of the towers at 9/11, is too controversial an idea for Th’Yarc.
The Duck Pond
Barrington Passage, NS
Late Afternoon
There’s A Very Little House
4 Sale In The Heart
Of Barrington Passage
Right Next 2 CIBC
& The Post Office.
It’s A Stroll Away
From The Duck Pond
In Front Of The Library
Where Eye Am Sitting Now
Enjoying The Fountain
While The Ducks R Nestled
On The Bank
Beside The Traffic
Which Is The Vitality
Of This Place Eye Call Home
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
September 4, 2024
M(eye) Painter Friend in Bridgewater
is daring Me 2 write
another poem, This One
about walking 2 The Superstore
in Yarmouth —
Eye love 2 walk
(when Eye have a destination)
& will walk, maybe, in The Dead
of Winter
2 get small amounts of groceries
for M(eye) New House
on Cumberland Street
in The Heart of Downtown Yarmouth —
M(eye) Newest of Homes
NOTE: This was written at an unsure time when Eye was mometarily considering moving from The Hawk.
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
September 4, 2024
Eye Am Thinking of Moving
to Yarmouth —
The Very Western End
of The Province
where The Slogan
“ON THE EDGE OF EVERYWHERE”
rings true.
Eye would Live In Town
in a house Eye am 2 look at
on Friday
where Eye would store M(eye) Paintings
in a concrete basement
& display a few
from a glassed-in front porch.
Eye would have to get a job
& live A New Single Life
where Eye do have some new friends
& where Eye volunteer
in 2 Arts Organizations —
Eye might even get rid of M(eye) Car
& Walk 2 The Superstore. . .
written July 29th, 2024
Today I traveled by boat, with my son at the helm, with my friend from the French Shore, out to McNutt’s Island, where I had not set foot in probably fifteen years. We walked the centre road — now a grassy lane — to the former Cape Roseway Light Station: a distance south of several kilometers bisecting the island’s wilderness, through sun-dappled shade where we rested twice. We finally glimpsed the 77 foot-high concrete edifice of what used to be the very important light house manned by three families in the 60’s and 70’s (then automated in the 80’s).
Our wooded trail opened out to a field of ungrazed grass grown up high — the island sheep had been removed too, several years ago — leaving the grass to billow around the concrete foundations of demolished houses and sheds and barns long ago meticulously painted red and white. The seeded grass formed a sea of faded gold and as my son explained that yes, the light itself had been dismantled (he didnt know when), a multi-colored helium balloon wafted into view from who knows where or how far off. It undulated over the waving grass and I ran like a child to catch it:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
July 30, 2024
6:15 am
Yesterday Eye Traveled Out
2 McNutt’s Island
My Mother’s Paradise
From Long Ago
2 Find Her Little Red House
Now Painted Blue
Down The Grassy Lane
Once Called “The Low Road”
We Passed A Line of Laundry
Hung In The Sun
On Our Walk 2 The Now Defunct
Cape Roseway Light Station
several kilometers south
On Our Way Back
Eye Wondered If Eye Should Visit
M(eye) Mother’s Grave
In The Lower Orchard
of Her Island House
Butt
When Eye Saw Just The Sun Hat
of M(eye) Mother’s Successor
Sitting Where M(eye) Mother Sat
Eye Did Not Want 2 Intrude
Tusket Falls Brewery, Tusket, NS
July 27, 2024
40 Years Ago
Eye Sat Dressed Up
Against The Wall
of A Japanese Piano Bar
In The Company of Other Young Women
Lighting Cigarettes
Filling Tumblers
w/ Ice & Watered-down Chivas Regal
For Korean Men
Japanese Customers
Who Asked About M(eye) Life
& Eye Told Them Eye Was Creating
The Bracelet for The Statue of Liberty
& Drew M(eye) Design
On Countless Cocktail Napkins
One Man Named Yoshi
Gave Me $2,000
Toward M(eye) Project
Butt Eye Spent It
On 2 Woolen Chinese Rugs
& Moved 2 Nova Scotia
Yarmouth, NS
Eye Have A Friend —
A Gambling Friend —
Who Drives A Red Convertible
& Spends & Spends
On Beer & Pop
& Slot Machines
& Chocolate Bars
& Ice Cream
& Fudgesicles
& Cigarettes —
She Owes Me A Long-standing Debt
Eye May Never Collect
Note: Debt was forgiven December 20, 2024
Joanna Gilman Hyde 