Joanna Gilman Hyde

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The Hawk Utility Room

February 2, 2025

5:15 am

It’s Chantal’s Birthday

& Peak Must Be Up

About 2 Go Swimming

As The Only Exercise

He Can Get

w/ His Herniated Back

& Eye Am Reclining

In The Arms Of God

Chair

Down  In M(eye) Early Morning

Sitting Room

w/ Molly On M(eye) Lap

& M(eye) Tea Almost Gone

& CIFA Wafts Down The Stairwell

& This Will Be Published

@ M(eye) Birth Time

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 31, 2025

4:00 am

From M(eye) Grandmother’s

Wrought Iron Chair

Eye Can See

The Stars

While M(eye) Tea Steeps

Eye Can Know

That Soon Eye Will Be

In The Arms Of God

Chair

Down In The Utilty Room

Reading

The New Book:

The Pros & Cons

Of Dying

The Hawk Queen Bed

January 29, 2025

3:40 am

Oh 2 Dream

Of The Arms Of God

Chair, Waiting For Me

Down In The Utility Room —

Waiting For M(eye) Pot Of Tea

Red Rose, Steeping

As Eye Try 2 Sleep

w/  Crumpled Back

& The Prickly Hands

Of Improper Positioning

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 27, 2025

9:40 am

This Morning On The Phone

w/ M(eye) Artist Friend From Bridgewater

Eye Was Treated

2 The Display Of A Lifetime

From M(eye) Beautiful Bird

Gully The 3rd

Standing On The Deck Rail

Performing Arabesque

After Arabesque —

Each Time w/ His Right Foot

Illuminated Pinky-red Raised

Against The Under White

Of His Mammoth Wings —

Gully’s Bacon Today

Was Taken From The Palm

Of M(eye) Left Hand

Repeatedly

The Hawk Corner Room

January 23, 2025

12:55 pm

Dearest Robin:

Thank U SO MUCH

4 “Being There 4 Me”

When M(eye) Kids Thought

Eye Needed 2 “See A Therapist” —

of All The Multitudinous

Psychiatrists

Doctors

Nurses

Pastors

Reverends

Ministers

Therapists

Councillors

Support Workers

& Lawyers

Eye Have Encountered

w/in The Past 32 Years

U Have Been The BEST —

Friendliest, Funniest

Most Enjoyable

& Last Butt Not Least —

Most HELPFUL

(Eye Will Reserve Some Praise

4 Dr Andrew Ashley-Smith

of Bridgewater, NS

Who Stated In January 2017

“You Have NO DIAGNOSIS“)

It Is 2 U

That Eye Write

Today, Inspired

2 Let U Know

Via M(eye) Public Poetry Blog

That Eye Am FINE

Having Just Spent Nearly 2 Months

Re-vamping

M(eye) House & M(eye) Art

4 M(eye) Living Gallery —

(Which Eye Can’t Wait 4 U 2 See)

Re-vamping The Cats

w/ Daily Treats & Combings & Pettings

& Now, Today, The Realization

That Eye Am Going Through

M(eye) ENTIRE Poetry Blog

joannagilmanhyde.wordpress.com

Instituted In April of 2012

Replete w/ Over 3,200 Poems —

Re-vamping Every 1 of Them

w/ M(eye) Writing Style

4 All The World 2 See —

U Included —

Thanx 4 Ever

Your Friend

JGH

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

January 23, 2025

9:30 am

This Morning Gully

Must Have Had His Fill

of Scrappy Bacon

(The Cheapest & Best)

Served Now In His Little White Bowl

w/ Handle

(So Eye Can Hold It For Him)

Perched On The Rail

of M(eye) Winter Deck —

This Morning He Took

2 Servings & Took Off

As Eye Prepared 2 Serve A 3rd —

Maybe Because Eye Violently Brushed Off

w/ White Gloved Hand

1 Nagging Speck of Black Lint

Stuck Against M(eye) New Blue Robe

& Gully Decided He Had Had

Enough

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost

December 8, 2023

Dawn Is Barely Breaking

Over The Gleaming Lights

of The Lobster Boats:

Eye Could Stand Here

All Morning

2 Watch The Sky

Evolve

Butt Eye Have Left

M(eye) Cozy Bed

2 Have M(eye) Cup of Tea

& So Eye Will Return

Perhaps 2 Write of “Thee” —

(Oh Brother!)

The Tomato-coloured Couch

February 25, 2024

Into Institutions Eye Go

Only 2 Get Rejected —

M(eye) Son Says Society

Is Made Up of Institutions

& Eye Don’t Belong In Any of Them

(M(eye) Observation):

The Institution of Marriage

The Institution of School

The Institution of The Military

(M(eye) Son’s Institution)

The Health Care System —

Only The World of Art

Can Save Me Now

Where Eye Am Free 2 Write

Dance & Paint

Whatever Eye Care 2 Express

Note:  left out The Institution of Religion

The Hawk Queen Bed

October 10, 2024

5:53 am

Eye Was In Peter’s Girlfriend’s House

Butt There Were All These Other People

Supposedly From The Weslyan Church

w/ Masks

(stylized masks as opposed to medical).

One Eye Leaned Against On A Couch

Thinking She Was A Pillow —

She Got Mad @ Me —

Eye Was Trying 2 Take Care of Baby Eliza

2 Give Her A Bath —

She Seemed 2 Need A Bath.

Eye Asked Peter If Eye Could Talk 2 Him

Privately

Butt He Was Reluctant.

He Knew Eye Wanted 2 Take Eliza w/ Me.

Eye Wanted 2 Take Her 2 M(eye) House.

Eye Wanted 2 Care For Her.

Eye Wanted Her 2 Live w/ Me

@ Least Temporarily.

Eye Told Peter, “Peter, Eye Have Lived

The Loneliest Times of M(eye) Life

In M(eye) House

& Eye Want M(eye) Daughter w/ Me.

Eye Can Take Care of Her Now.

Eye Live w/ 3 Cats Eye Neglect. 

Eye Like Them, Butt Eye Don’t Love Them.”

There Were Gates Everywhere

& Unfolding Stairs

2 Try 2 Get Out of Peter’s Girlfriend’s House.

Eye Said 2 Him, “You Have (Her Name) Now.”

Later, He Said He Wished Eye Hadn’t Said That

Within The Confines of Her House

Because He Wasn’t Sure About Her.

There Were More People Around

Who Were Doing Drugs

& One Man Seemed 2 Be A Pedophile.

Eventually Eye Laid Eliza In A Crib.

It Had Old Food On Layers of Bedding

& Paint Chips & Old Makeup

In The Bottom End.

It Was Disgusting.

That’s When Eye Said 2 Everybody:

“This Is All A Dream

& Eye Should Be Having M(eye) Child

In M(EYE) House —

Eye’ve Been Trying 2 Get Her 2 M(EYE) House.”

Other Women Laughed @ Me

When Eye Said, This Is All A Dream

& Eye Thought They Were Sizing Me Up

For Mental Instability.

When Eye Had Finally Said, “This Is All A Dream”

A Transvestite Super Woman Appeared

Lying On The Floor

& Assured Me That She/He

Would Help Me Get 2 M(eye) House —

Then Eye woke Up.

NOTE: Eye Was Holding Baby Eliza

Throughout The Dream.

When She Was Laid In The Filthy Crib

She Was Laid Down Like A Discarded Doll.

She Said She Was Very Sleepy

& That She Needed 2 Take A Bath

Butt That She Was Very Sleepy.