The Hawk Queen Bed
January 20, 2025
6:32 am
How Can Eye
Lie in Bed
when Molly & Jerome are Out?
Eye went 2 A Dance
Last Night
& Enjoyed M(eye) Self
in Black
w/ Black Iridescent Salvation Army Beads
around M(eye) Neck
w/ Vintage Earrings Dangling
Eye Danced 2 Old Country Rock
w/ M(eye) Friend Charmaine
& Her Friend Marcella —
Eye Ate The Snack
put out by Lions Hall Volunteers
& Left @ 12:30
2 Drive Home
in The Rain
2 Let 2 of 3 Cats
Out
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
January 19, 2025
7:19 am
Eye am sitting again
in The Wrought Iron Chair
made in Alabama
75 Years Ago —
Illuminated
by The Swath of Dawn
Marking M(eye) Horizon
BLACK
w/ Sparks of Lobster Boats
interspersed along The Line —
The Edge —
of Our Time
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
January 17, 2025
8:36 am
What Could Be Greater
than Gully on His Rail
eating snow after His 2 Pieces of Bacon —
Molly playing w/ The Ribbon
dangling from This Journal
(Journal # 84) (counted 3 X’s)
Jerome contemplating going
Out —
Moulan, Who’s Deaf,
sitting complacently in The Hall
(on a floor that’s heated)
& of course The Sky
layden w/ winter banks
of Copious Cloud —
The Colours
of M(eye) Morning Gull
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
January 17, 2025
8:36 am
Eye wonder where Gully goes
when it’s minus 7 Celsius —
every night He goes somewhere
butt Eye Know Not
The Territory He Roams —
Does He Flock W/ His Mates?
Does He Tell Them
There’s Bacon 2 Be Had
Every Morning
On His RAIL
Hand — Fed?
The Hawk Utility Room
January 16, 2025
5:43 am
Eye Am Looking For A Poem
Written Decades Ago
When Eye Left M(eye) Children’s Father
For The Untimely Dr Blair:
The Poem Was Inspired
B(eye) M(eye) Reckless Disposal
of The Precious Object
Hand-Knitted B(eye) Peter’s Mother —
The Baby Eliza’s First Dress
of Innocent White
Deposited @ Al Keith’s 2nd Hand Store
In Shelburne
In M(eye) Way 2 The Big White Castle
Un Barrington
In M(eye) Way 2 That Existence of Tumult
& Danger
Where & When Eye Lost The Surety
of M(eye) Children
of M(eye) Own Self
The Hawk Queen Bed
January 13, 2025
3:42am
E(eye) L(eye) In Bed
& Dream of Sitting
In The Arms of God
Chair
Drinking M(eye) Tea —
A Far Cry
— or should that be Cr(eye) —
From When Eye
Used 2 L(eye)
In Bed
Not Knowing
What 2 Do
w/ M(eye) L(eye)fe
The Hawk Utility Room
January 12, 2025
5:50 am
M(eye) Kitchen For 1
Is Set Up Now
w/ 3 Little Night Lights
So Eye Can See
In The Dark
2 Make M(eye) Tea
The Hawk Utility Room
January 8, 2025
5:55 am
Eye Run A Tight Ship
around here —
Jerome should never be shaved again —
2 look like a plucked chicken
w/ His “Lion Cut” —
Eye have incorporated
The Grooming Care of The Cats
into M(eye) Daily Life:
@ No Prescribed Time
on The Kitchen Floor
or Hallway
taking hold of A Cat
by The Back of His or Her Neck
Eye momentarily torture
(for now, until They are completely free
of matts)
1 of 3 Cats leftover
from The Previous Household
of as many as 7
(Who never got groomed)
They R M(eye) Cats Now —
& They Should Be Matt-free
Sleek for Their Benefit
as well as for M(eye) Peace of Mind
Here In M(eye) Living Gallery
where Eye will NOT have
A Single Hair Out of Place.
The Hawk Utility Room
January 5, 2025
3:45 am
What was so alluring
about Dr Blair?
Is This Poem
even worth writing?
(pause 2 get more tea)
Just slathered orange-smelling
hotel lotion on M(eye) Face
standing in M(eye) Newly Appreciated
Kitchen
lit w/ one Night Light…
The Hawk Utility Room
January 3, 2025
6:15 am
You could have been housed
here in M(eye) Living Gallery —
in “Peak’s Room”
decked w/ ART in The Basement
2 do Your Prolific Writing
2 work on Your Book titled
“PILLS”
(which Eye am eager 2 read)
butt You’re Caught In The Trap
of The Psychiatric Industry
which does not recognize
Your Talents
does not recognize
Your Exquisite Individuality
& has You pumped down
on 5 different medications
all of which Eye believe
are harming Your Wonderful Brain
in an effort 2 “stabilize”
Beautiful You —
You Who have lost Your Mother,
Your Grandmother, Cat & House
in Shelburne, The Place
You Loved, butt which turned
It’s back on You
because of Your “Psychiatric History”
— You R Stigmatized —
like Me, like M(eye) Brother
(The Late Howard Talbot Walden Hyde)
& Eye am left at Odds w/ The Program
which encases You Against Your Will —
Or R U Complacent?
How Can That Be?
Get Out Dear Luke — Get Out — —
The World Needs You —
Your Unique Creativity —
Your Sensitivity —
Your Wonderful Humour —
Your Enthusiasm for Life —
& EYE HEART U
L — U — K — E !!
Joanna Gilman Hyde 