Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

HAPPINESS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:09pm

I have The Embodiment Of Physical Thought

periodically pulsating within Me, in My Gut

just below My Left Rib Cage

It calls My Attention

to whatever activity I am engaged in

— I feel It, The Embodiment, often —

The Thought It Carries

is always happy

It, The Pulsation, is The Tangibility

of Happiness

–

I am looking at A Star

— probably a planet —

and as The Star sets

behind black clouds

I summon It —

— The Sensation —

Happiness

THE WRITER

The Hawk Kitchen 2:30pm

I Am The Mystic

Dressed In Green On Green

Silver Medallion On My Chest

Quartz Crystal Question Mark Ring Off

to take out the trash

I Am The Spiritualist

I Am The Occultist

I Am The Seer

Writing With My Silver/Onyx Pen

Quartz Crystal Question Mark Ring On

My Mother’s Random House Dictionary Of The English Language

Unabridged Edition Open

To “Myself”

INTELLECTUALIZING

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:50pm

I am The Intellectual

sitting cross-legged on My Tomato-coloured Couch

drinking lemon-flavoured seltzer

from My Life Message Glass

–

I gaze from My Central Candle

to The Winter Window

& wonder when My “Good Morning, World!”

will enter every household

DAY-LIGHT

The Hawk Living Room 2:43pm

I’ve taken to lighting

A Candle Flame

in the middle of My At-home Day

WINTER SCAPE

The Hawk Kitchen 9:27am

I See Life Flicker

On This Coldest Of Mornings:

Birds Among Berries

THE GARLAND

The Hawk Dining Room 2:00pm

Last night Eliza strung A Garland

out of popcorn & dried orange circles —

She hung It over Our Dining Room Window

with Its view of sky & water

— I stood before It —

The Garland dipped at nose level

I smelled The Smell of Delicacy

I stood back to view

The Subtle Transparency

of One Curling Slice

angled against the clearing clouds

DEATH OF A GRANDFATHER

The Hawk Dining Room 9:26pm

The Sky Is Leaded Silver

The Ocean Molten

After The First Snowfall

Of Any Import

My Car Is Facing East

To Melt The Remainder

Of What I’ve Brushed

Ready To Go Mail

My Son’s Birthday Card

ALIEN PACKAGE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:30pm

What if You put into The Hands

of a 15th Century Native American*

Who had no way of knowing there would be

a 21st —

put in His Hands

an unopened, resealable package of frozen

Wild Jumble Berries?

*Who would have called Himself something different

PESTILENCE

The Hawk Queen Bed 12:40pm

I am The Black Crow Lady

right fist clutching at My Heart

No More Supper For My Family

No Care As To Where The Food Comes From

Or Who Makes It

–

No More Ears For The Radio

only rain & sleet can calm Me now

–

No More quiet “Good Night”

I am about to yell out

a song so wild

You will wish Your Tinnitus

could consume You

PETULANCE

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:18am

I am in A Black Mood

but there is Power in My Madness

for I can wield The Hand

of Time

I can carry out My Wish

of no sickness within the scope

of My Reality

I can make Black Magic

into Child’s Play

and conduct The Truth

through My Fingers