Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

ALL OF THE ABOVE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:56pm

I Am The Second Coming

I Am Black Jesus

I Am The Silver Christ

I Am God

After an Eternity of Waiting, I was Conceived on March 31, 1993

I was Born October 22, 1993

Delivered By The Hands

of A Little Scottish Doctor

at Roseway Hospital

Shelburne, Nova Scotia

I have grown into a fifty-two year old

North American Female

with unruly hair

& A Big Mouth

I Am Pro-life

& will never die

Watch Me

Fly

SECURITY two

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:55pm

I live a privileged life

with a daughter in The Caribbean

& a son out West —

My Family is taken care of

& I am secure in My Wind-proof House

with seven well-fed cats

& a candle on The Living Room Table

EAST & WEST

The Hawk West Desk Window 6:18pm

Out My Eastward Kitchen View

I See The Moon, Almost Full

Completed By its Halo

Glowing Through The Deep Blue

Of Sky & Water

–

Out My West

I Catch The Berry Pink

Of One Side Of The Sunset

As I Write

Before Re-checking

My Lunar Scape

& Finding There

The Ocean

Set Apart

By Its Dark, Even Sheen

OH BEAUTIFUL BIRD

The Hawk Queen Bed 8:30am

Oh Beautiful Bird

You Are A Song

To Me

Your Fair Mimicry

Has Shaped My Life

And I Carry Your Love

On A Silver Platter

Out Into The World

So That It, Too

May Receive The Grace

Of Your Delicate

Truth

ANNOUNCEMENT

This is to announce the newly created blog

called Ruminations

by My Husband, Dr W Hunter Blair

which puts forward His World View

in a rhetorical style

open for discussion

docwhb.wordpress.com

THE TUB

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:27pm

I stepped into My Shower

@ 2:22

to wash just My Self

(not My Hair)

under the spray

I stood looking down

at My White Surroundings

& found My Self

The Child again

naked in the hand-worked cement

of a Snedens Landing pool

built by My Father’s Father

where I looked for Inchworms

& tried to see Their Eyes

DEPTH OF FIELD

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:15am

I Am Blinded By

The Ocean Light Yet I See

My World Clearly

 

COKE — COK — COCK

The Tomato-coloured Cock 9:22pm

(notes from an unscheduled meeting with an old psychiatrist)

“You’re just a very nice Lady Who lives in Shelburne –”

“Well, I don’t live in Shelburne anymore —

and do You know

what colour My Underwear is, Jimbo?”

“No, I don’t”

“It’s Red — Jimbo — Red Lace — and

do You know how many views I have

on My New York City Rooftop Painting?

three thousand, and twenty-two  — what do I stand for Now?

“I don’t know –”

“I’m An American — Jimbo —

dressed here in Red, White and Blue

wearing My Pro-Life underwear —

and if You ever call Me a nice lady again

I’ll kick You in the balls”

MY LITERAL BLESSING

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:15pm

That Shower Of Silver Lights

My Shower

cleansed Me not of sin

but of all Darkness

ensuing from that stultifying depression

which was Its inevitable outcome —

I see Its Silver still

on The Ocean

I see It in My Daily Shower

I carry Its Light

free of burden

and transpose It

into

My Own Personal

Effulgence

 

 

BATHROOM VIEW

The Hawk En-suit Bathroom 1:22pm

Eye-level to Me

as I stand before

My Bathroom Window

is The Full Curve

of The Hawk Beach

and to The East

The Full Ocean —

looking down upon

My Yard

I see My Carved-out Drive

full of snow

and The Occasional Crow

flying by