Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Category: visual art

TODAY’S SILVER

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:15am

The Silver glitters

on My Ocean Front

like the spears

that crashed down on My Head

all around Me

twenty-three years ago —

it’s taken that long

to spread The Glory

from My Sight

out and around

The World

into Our Hands

AQUATIC FOLIAGE

The Hawk Utility Room 9:05pm

I sit before My Latest Painting

starting out as M(EYE) BODY

but quickly seen out

as Aquatic Foliage —

I’m wearing My most expensive earrings

which, earlier today, caught fire

in The Hawk Living Room

when I observed a filament cluster

of cat hair floating mid air

in a beam of sun from The Sky Light —

as I bent to grasp

and missed

The Illuminated Galaxy,

sparks ignited on The Floor —

M(EYE) Precious Grounding Floor —

as I glinted rays dangling from M(EYE) Lobes

all around

and down below

SINK SPUTTER

The Hawk En Suite Bath 1:32pm

There’s A Crab Nebula

on My Silver

Bathroom Faucet —

EYE think

I’ll

leave

IT

FATALISM

The Hawk TV Room 11:45am

M(EYE) BATHROBE

has fallen into an

artistic construction

!&!

if I put IT back on

I will never have that

sculpture again!

ENORMITY

The Hawk Kitchen 1:11pm

When EYE sit down to pee

EYE am a giant

on a mountain —

EYE can guzzle orange

Gatorade Perform

with Its metal grey label

in one go

MORNING SUSTENANCE

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:45am

EYE eat M(EYE) cereal

before The Silver Sea

EYE see The Maverick*

before M(EYE) EYES

as The One Who will take

M(EYE) Painting**

to The Sk(EYE)s

*Donald J. Trump

** Self Organizing Galaxy

SHOW & TELL

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 11:02am

EYE have to sell

M(EYE) Mental Health

to  M(EYE) New Psychiatrist:

nails done

HYDE INQUIRY pant suit

file folder of photos

showing sculpted heads

Certificate of Congratulations

from Concept 2 Rowing

New Painting started on basement floor

EYE have to sell

M(EYE) Self

MORNING SKY

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:09am

The Sky is heavy blue

with cloud —

The Sea the colour of plasticine

Rudy’s Head sits veiled in The Living Room

unseen

while He’s back in hospital

RECONCILLIATION OF OPPOSITES

The Hawk Exercise Room 12:43pm

The Colossal Blades from

My Giant Sculpture

“Peaches & Blades”

filling the lobby of Cooper Union’s

4th floor

will reappear

in “M(EYE) BODY”

as the radiating silver

on either side

of M(EYE) Exclamation

MEMORABILIA

Eliza’s Room 9:33pm

EYE sleep tonight

beneath the accouterments

of fame

surrounding the lavender corner

of My Daughter’s outgrown

room

it’s tiny — the room

the fame is huge

delineated by My Survival

of photos stretched out and hung

with congratulatory letters from New York City’s Former Mayor Ed Koch

and New Jersey’s Former Governor Thomas H. Kean

for My Painting Self Organizing Galaxy

which spawned 9/11