I AM
The Hawk Queen Bed 8:00am
I Am Your Black Jesus
I Am The Silver Christ
flashing hot with menopause
sleep-deprived from letting Astro out @ 5:00
waking Eliza for school @ 6:30
making coffee for My Husband @ 7:00
Joanna Gilman Hyde
"Good Morning, World!"
Category: Uncategorized
January 2, 2013
BRUSHFIRE
The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:11pm
I was That Girl
Who watched uneasily
as Her Brother’s Friend
heaped dried leaves
on top of a little fire
lit to cook onion grass
in The Woods behind Her House
–
I was That Girl
Who ran back to The House
to get a pitcher of water
to meet Her Mother’s Alarm
–
I was That Girl
“eight-going-on-nine”
Who wrote a letter of thanks
to The Valley Cottage Fire Department
“for saving Our Woods”
“I’ll never scratch a match again”
–
I was That Girl
praised by Her Former Kindergarten Teacher
met in the school hallway
The Letter was in the paper
January 2, 2013
REVERIE
The Hawk Kitchen 4:30pm
I am That Old Woman
positioned by Her Kitchen View
of Yard, Ocean, Sky
with a cat on Her Foot Stool
& no knitting in Her Lap
January 2, 2013
IRIDESCENT HEART
The Hawk Queen Bed 9:00am
I sit inside a purple room
the chamber of a heart
when I close My Eyes
I see iridescent purple
& decide Whose Heart
I’m in
January 1, 2013
PUNCTUATED LOSS
The Hawk Kitchen 5:40pm
I lost a hand made ring
of enamelled Silver
into the waves of The Jersey Shore
when I was 18
with My First And Only Boyfriend
–
Was It Silver going back to ore
as I told My Self
when I was 13 & lost
two Silver Bracelets
My Mother gave Me for Christmas?
–
What did I tell My Self
when I lost a hand made Silver-beaded earring
in the sand on Mc Nutt Island
when I was maybe 20
with a military man
whose name is long forgotten?
–
What do I tell My Self now
when I lose something
I might value
like a pair of crystal candlesticks
from My Mother’s Shakespeare House
put away in one of the boxes
I took unopened to The Salvation Army?
December 31, 2012
PORTRAIT
The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:25pm
She stood in Our Family Room
Entry Way
8 feet tall in platform pink stilettos
dark mini & worked-on hair
straight
asking for a ride
to the beginning of Her Partying
equipped with a little one-shot bottle
of Black Crown Royal
I gave Her with Her Roses
on Christmas Eve —
now It’s New Year’s
She’s out in The Wind
messing up Her Hair
as She climbs into My Escape
& climbs out at a Black Dodge Ram 1500:
Her Trophy Legs are all I can see
disappearing down Her Boyfriend’s Drive
December 31, 2012
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
