Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Category: visual art

DAWN

Sun-meshed horizon

colouring clouds, Eye can hear

M(eye) morning bird song

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

If he had told me

“You’re the greatest artist

in the world”

Eye might have stayed

for free

MY BLACK PEN

My Black Pen

oozes and dribbles

 

down down

over his brow

clouding his blue eyes

like the inky string

of vulnerable women

of which Eye

— his third wife —

am merely

one drip

drop

“Sleep Will Be An Issue For The Rest of Your Life”

Eye used to sleep a lot

on drugs

ingested religiously

@ 9:11pm

 

Those Days/Nights are gone forever

as I live

on paint fumes

Hip Hop Music

& M(eye) Own Life

The Silver Anniversary

Eye woke This Morning

from The Dream

of cleaning up cat shit

with M(eye) bare hands —

the cat shit was in the shape

of a computer key board —

laid on the seat of M(eye) Grandparents’

Victorian Rosewood Chair.

The Key Board was intricate —

It was Intricate Shit —

and I had It on My Hands

Palm Sunday

Eye have The New Christ

pinned to M(eye) wall

She lays with Her Backside

bare to us all —

She fucks our Netflicks

to the content of Her Heart —

She dangles Her Crotch

& lets out a fart

In M(eye) House

Eye am in

The Silver Anniversary

of M(eye) Mother’s Death:

The Shower of Silver  Lights

is 25 Years Old

and now Eye am free

of Its Stigma

and am living

under The Sun

& Moon

ERNIE DEXTER, ARTIST

EYE have hung M(eye) X

upon the wall

below M(eye) Painting

bought

of someone’s old house

done in pink —

a Nova Scotia house

out in the bleak

CONTEST

Eye have hung My Portrait

upon the wall

above His Books

Eye would forestall

We’re in a contest

to & fro

& Eye don’t care

where He goes

He thought Eye would write

pretty poems

& paint Him pictures of blue

& white

He was wrong

for Eye have come

to see Him as

My Only Plight

if Eye could dip His Head

in Black

I would fight

for My Self

back

but He has The Bucks

Eye need to live

& so Eye am helpless

to forgive

Lesley’s Birthday

It was in a dream

Eye gave M(eye) Arms

to badly needed rest —

Eye used The Body

of M(eye) X

to make a cross

upon M(eye) Bed