The Hawk Kitchen 2:07pm
I put on My Green Apron —
“Pinny” as My Scottish Husband
calls It —
in It
I am The Uniform
of Domesticity
ready to cook
up
a chicken casserole
with the radio
up
LOUD
The Hawk Shower 11:40am
My Wash Cloth dangles
like a black tulip
holding closed My Secrets —
Secrets of The Shower —
I take It to My Body
every day & rinse
the woven purple
out carefully
for the next
intimacy
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:55am
My Mother was My Guiding Star
I hang Her Portrait
above My Door
She led Me straight
to never lie
& held Me close
until She died
The Hawk Dining Room 6:57am
I got up to let out
a cat
& saw My Painting
in the sky —
I saw the orange and purple
laid out before Me
stretched along the horizon
& I am filled with a knowing
happiness
as I see the pink turn
to gold
& the ball of licking light
rise
February 17, 2016
DAVID DUDICK
Division President
General Mills Canada Corporation
5825 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, Ontario L4W 5P6
Dear Mr. Dudick:
Please find the enclosed unopened box of Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Cashew Granola Bars purchased February 6, 2016 at Sobey’s in Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia. I request that you open it at your earliest convenience and look inside. Please find also, along with proof of purchase, my internet poem titled “Gyped” which was published on February 13 and proved to be one of my most popular poems in the history of my daily poetry blog which this April will be four years old.
Yours very truly,
Joanna G. Hyde
cc Colin Gates, Manager Sobeys
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:28am
I see the pale disc
of sun, looking like a golden coin
on the rise
through a streak of cloud
moving into its halo
soaked up
by its own illumination
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 12:32pm
My Piece of Ocean
is My Window’s glorious portion
of sea-salt scape complete
with two charming abodes
down on the shore
with slate-blue water in front
& the scrub spruce
between Me
& their roof-lines
The Hawk Queen Bed 1:30am
I had a stone wall once
a series, a square
of old grey rocks, cleared & tumbling
fenced around an apple orchard
behind My Mother’s Island House:
It had two openings
for a wagon’s passage — one
on the East wall
one on the West
& I mowed through it
with a $2.00 lawn mower
over buttercups
& wild raspberry cane
& over a nest of field mice
The Hawk Kitchen 2:00pm
I opened a box of Nature Valley
granola bars — contents five bars —
made by General Mills Canada Corporation
& discovered an empty space
for a sixth
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:22am
No rowing today
It’s snowing & I prefer
to keep My Feet up
with a scraggly cat by My Side
looking out to My Beloved
scraggly apple, scrub spruce
complete with the occasional crow
Joanna Gilman Hyde 