Joanna Gilman Hyde

Roseway Hospital,Shelburne, NS

May 6, 2024

Today @ Roseway

Eye Witnessed A Crow

Out On The Rocks of The Roof

Hoarding Some Food

In A Way Eye Have Never Seen:

1st He Walked Around A Little

w/ A Piece of Maybe Pizza Crust

& Tore Off A Chunk

& Carried It 2 A Corner

& Buried It.

He Repeated This Process

w/ 2 Other Tearings

& Stashed Them

Carefully In Other Regions

of The Expansive Barren.

Then Eye Returned

2 Tend 2 M(eye) D(eye)ing Lady

& The Crow Flew Off, Presumably

So Eye Asked M(eye) Self —

Where Did That Crow Go?

The Hawk Corner Room

April 23, 2024

8:50 am

Eye Just Threw Out

M(eye) Sculpture of Beach Combings

Written On Shells:

“ABOLISH SIN” —

It Was In A Corner

of M(eye) Corner Room

& It Was Taking Up Space.

It Was In The Way

of M(eye) Cleaning.

After The Departure

of M(eye) Beautiful Eliza

& Eye Didn’t Want It Anymore.

Note: Eye regret doing this, & intend 2 look for The Sculpture 2 try 2 retrieve It.  Written on January 21, 2025

The Hawk Queen Bed

May 22, 2024

5:50 am

2 Those of Us

Who Carry Religion Around

Like A Crystal Vase

@ The Ready

2 Bludgeon,

Eye Say —

Put It On A Window Sill

In Order

2 View Its Light

Refracted

The Hawk Queen Bed

April 21, 2024

9:43 pm

Tonight When Eye Walked

Eliza’s Mexican Street Dog Concha —

The Sweetest Dog Eye Know —

Eye Could Hear The Waves

From The Cape

& The Hawk Beach

& As Eye Walked

Around The Loop

The Peepers Increased

In Volume

& Eye Listened Intently

2 The Alien Beeps

On M(eye) S(eye)de of The Road

w/ The Waves Opposite

& Eye Was Happy

The Hawk Queen Bed

April 20, 2024

6:14 am

Eye have a Niece

somewhere in California

Who wants to be A Boy

(at least Eye think She does —

for Eye have been cut off from Her)

Eye do not know if She is being fed

TESTOSTERONE

Eye do not know if

She hates Her Breasts

or Why

& tomorrow She turns 18

(on The Queen’s Birthday)

is that some magical number?

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

April 2, 2024

9:30 am

The Last Compliment Uttered

by Dr Blair

was @ Digby Pines

in August 6 Years Ago

when Eye wore an orange/red Dress

w/ short layered sleeves

@ Dinner

He said, “You Look Fetching”

& Eye Incorporated The Dress

into a painting titled

REPARATION

which currently lies folded up

Outside M(eye) Back Cellar Door

waiting to be hauled to the dump.

Note: January 21, 2025 — Eye may salvage some or all of That Painting 2 use in Futue Pieces.

April 2, 2024

This Morning In M(eye) Rubber Boots

Eye Moved Cami & Condo

Further Back

Into The Woods

of Scrub Spruce

& Fern

& Found A Golf Ball

— A Toy For Cats —

The Tomato-coloured Couch

March 28, 2024

Cami, Dr Blair’s Cat

Died In Her Condo

Out On M(eye) Portico

This Morning In The Rain

Eye Carried The Tubular Cat Shelter

Replete w/ 1 Paw Extended

Out Behind M(eye) House

Over A Bank of Stones

& Placed Her

Tomb-like Between 2 Mounds

of Dead Ferns

Where Much 2 M(eye) Chagrin

Eye Could See The Carpeted Contraption

From M(eye) Kitchen

The Hawk Queen Bed

March 27, 2024

Eye Took Off The Jewelry

Given or Bequeathed 2 Me

By M(eye) Mother:

The Amber Beads of Orange

The Earrings of Spangled Copper

She Said Reminded Her of Rocket Flares —

The Ancient Ring of Hand-wrought Gold

w/ Re-cut Amethyst —

& Remembered Her

Champagne-bubbly Evening Dress

Sleeveless

Patterned In Gold Globules

Against Brown Crepe

High-waisted

Bought @ Lord & Taylor’s

For The Rainbow Room

When Eye Was 8

Out Shopping w/ M(eye) Mother

& Grandmother

In New York City

The Hawk Queen Bed

March 26, 2024

5:44 am

Our Beds R Our Wombs —

We Crawl Back Into Them

Every Night —

2 Decide Every Morning

If We Want 2 Be Born

Again