written by assignment
“Use colour to express what’s around you as THINGS”
June 1, 2024
On The Last Day of May
Eye Drove Through The Evening Sun
Along Highway 103
Lit Lavender Were The Trees
w/ Solid Green of New Leaf
& Blossomed White
Dabbed Here & There
Like A Landscape Painting —
This Morning June 1st
Eye Opened M(eye) Eyes
2 Clouds of Pink
& Got Up 2 Write
The Hawk Deck
May 29, 2024
8:00 am
This Morning Eye Set Out
M(eye) Glass Top Table
Under The Heralding of The Jay
So Eye Can Eat M(eye) Breakfast Here
On The Deck
On M(eye) Single Folding Chair
& Drink M(eye) Tea
written by assignment
May 27, 2024
Once when Eye was 13
Eye sat in A Tree
on A Neighbour’s Property
& The Neighbour’s Son
Older Than Me
stood below
& asked If Eye Had A Boyfriend —
“No” Eye said
& He said:
“We’ll Have 2 Find You One —
You’re A Cute Cookie”
The Hawk Dining Room
January 22, 2025
10:53 am
Recently Eye have been re-vamping all poems going back Eye am not sure how far, & have come across a few which did not get posted. Here follows several previously unpublished poems from 2024 & earlier:
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
Joanna Gilman Hyde 