Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

RESCUE?

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 4:13pm

legions of mosquitoes

have swarmed into the broken webbing

of yesterday

catching themselves, in some cases

one upon the other

still alive

& how I wonder

can their scrambling efforts be

for each other?

WE NEED A WORLD WIDE 9/11

The Hawk Kitchen 3:40pm

Where will I go

with My Halo

solidified in the frantic spinning

of a wind-blown insect

dangling off a disheveled spider web —

to give forth

The “Wake Up”

Call?

FEROCITY

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:06am

Oh how I want to knead

a double weave of lavender

& green —

I want so badly

to meld a shield

of diamond coloured star

in My Center

Oh how I want to paint

the emblematic Silver

of My Center

My Big Black X

so I could make a pair

to My Black Star

“My Word!”

The Hawk Kitchen, sometime in the afternoon

I am under The Spell

of creation I have blown

the breath of Life

into the blankness

of everything

and I am The Creator

of what has

always

been

STANDARD REFORMATION

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:40pm

I can hear Nova Scotia

in the song of the birds

on the convolutions of the wind

breezing through My Screen

Yes, I am screened in —

I live a life for God

by Her Design

I am laden

with My Perfect

Responsibility

meshing with the object

of My Deepest Wish

SILVER SPOUT

The Hawk En-suite Bath 9:51am

I see A Fragment

of Our Universe

emblazoned on the sink faucet

It has arrived

by spit

spraying tooth paste splatter

washed together

with the fluid

of many microbes

ON-HIGH

The Hawk Kitchen 5:15pm

I have My Purple Toes

in My Silver Sandals

I can look down

on Them & pretend

I am in The Sky

or perched in a tree

Living The Life

of an On-high

Observer

FEEDING A GULL

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 3:20pm

I Have A Gull

Who Knows His Place

He Sits, raw

on My Right Middle Finger

a chunk of amethyst

bought Myself

next to My Included Refinement

bought Myself

He gets thrown hunks

of out-dated bread

from My Left Hand Fingers

dead-weighted with the diamonds

of marital promise

swallowed whole

while holding His Ground

A SEASIDE FOREST

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:25pm

The Scrub Spruce deserve

a sketch w/ The Evening Sun

upon Their barren branches

fringed along the bottom

by a hedgerow of new bamboo

& topped above by the blue

of sea and sky

I’ve grown to love

The Scrub Spruce

to call It My Own

as It surrounds My Picture

— makes It —

out My Kitchen Window

IN FRONT

The Hawk Living Room 7:30pm

I once wore Red Underwear

for My Whole Life

& It got Me Nowhere

except to where I am

on a tomato-coloured love seat

staring at My Abortion