Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

THE PROMISE OF A BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE

The Hawk Dining Room 7:20am

The Sky is clear

but for a lateral

curling of cloud

grey & slanted toward the South

along My Ocean Horizon

THE KISS OF LIFE

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 6:55pm

EYE have decided to leave

My Fuchsia Lip Print

on The Rim of My Sacred Life Glass –

It rests

like a purple leaf above

the scripted “Life”

set in Black

& EYE drink from It

layer upon layer

3-D BLOOD BLOTCH

The Hawk Living Room 5:10pm

EYE am wearing

My REAL Black Jesus Underpants

& EYE am writing with

a still-good Birks pen cartridge:

EYE have seen

the 3-Dimensionality

of M(EYE) obliterated abortion

heart

in the middle of M(EYE) Black Star

& EYE Still See It!!

PERFECT TIMING

The Hawk Kitchen 8:30am

When I see

The Magic

on My Kitchen Clock

I stand back —

EYE take It in —

those Numbers :  2:22

or 9:11

or M(EYE) Best Friend —

10:22

Those Numbers take Me back

& fill Me Whole

with the recall

of M(EYE) most famous

Moment

22 years ago:

10:22

The Moment with M(EYE) Lover

Who accepted Me

& what EYE said

unconditionally

 

THE UNIVERSE

The Hawk Beach Guzzle 3:25pm

The Universe

is a stretch of beach

be-spotted with the turds of gulls

each spray or puddle is unique:

The Galaxies

of The Ocean’s Lull

 

M(EYE) KIND OF AIR

The Hawk Basement Exercise Room 10:38am

On My C2 Rowing Machine

I breathe with My Mouth

Open

I breathe in The Air

from The Basement Window

Cracked —

I breathe in The Air

of Nova Scotia

& I don’t even care

if The Roof of My Mouth

goes dry

COMMEMORATIVE ART

My 1992 art project titled Satellite Art For Extraterrestrials is originally described in the following raw footage video of 22 minutes.  The project is hereby designated to commemorate the lives of fourteen young women who were gunned down on this date, December 6th, 1989, at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec — because they were women. With their families’ permission, I now plan to have commemorative markers to be designed and placed at fourteen specific geographic sites in Quebec and Labrador, Canada.  Each marker will be placed in memory of what each woman was striving to achieve twenty-six years ago, and in honour of the strides all women continue to make for themselves and all of humanity:

Genevieve Bergeron 21

Nathalie Croteau 23

Anne-Marie Edward 21

Maryse Laganiere 25

Anne-Marie Lemay 27

Michele Richard 21

Annie Turcotte 21

Helene Colgan 23

Barbara Daigneault 22

Maud Havernick 29

Maryse Leclair 23

Sonia Pelletier 23

Annie St-Arneault 23

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz 31

SHOULD EYE BE?

The Hawk Portico 2:00pm

EYE am very happy

sitting here on My Portico

in bathrobe & slippered feet

on the 6th of December

in the sun

on this beleaguered Anniversary

of the 1989 Montreal Massacre*

having just begun

My Painting

titled “I Have Poured Out M(EYE) Black Heart”

 

* On December 6, 1989, fourteen female engineering students were gunned down, another ten women and four men injured, at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec.  The massacre was carried out single handedly by Marc Lepine who claimed he “hated feminists.”  He killed himself with the final shot.

 

 

FOUND OBJECT ART

The Hawk Kitchen 5:06pm

EYE have A Star

on M(EYE) Kitchen Floor

— I will not sweep It up!

I will let It twinkle

@ M(EYE) Feet

& Love The Domain

Eye see beneath

AS EYE SEE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:30pm

EYE opened My Napping EYES

to a sky of Gold

to The Mapping of My World

plain as candy

spun sugar

held by little children

unguided