Joanna Gilman Hyde

September 16, 2023

Right After Eye Finished

M(eye) Witch Dress Painting

Hurricane Lee Made The Power

Go Out

So Eye Left M(eye) House

2 Find Comfort @ McDonald’s

In The Form of A Large Decaf

w/ Double Cream.

Eye Kept M(eye) Car Running

Charging Up M(eye) Phone —

2 Go Where? As A Single Woman

w/ No Boyfriend or Pickup Truck

2 Go Wave-watching —

Eye Decided 2 Drive 2 Sherose Island

2 See If Anyone Had Set Up

A Comfort Centre

(That Was Where The Arena

Had Been Occupied By The Red Cross

During The Fires In June)

No Comfort Centre

Butt @  The Adjacent Curling Club

Several Pickup Trucks Abounded

So Eye Decided 2 Walk In

Only 2 Be Met @ A Table

By 2 Elderly Ladies

Who Seemed Taken Aback

By M(eye) Presence

Explaining They Were Hosting

The Annual Antler Show

(For Which You Needed 2 Buy A Ticket)

& The Show Wasn’t Cancelled

Thanks 2 Generators &

“Because The Men Had Put In

Too Much Effort.”

So Eye Looked Through Interior Glass

2 A Long Wall

of Trophied Deer Racks

Lining 1 Side of The Curling Rink

& Quickly Made M(eye) Exit

Back 2 M(eye) Car

Where Eye Sat On The Phone

Texting & Talking

& Watched 3 Parking Lots

Quickly Fill Up

w/ More & More Trucks

& Men In Tee Shirts

(Saw Only 2 Women)

Walking Into The Curling Rink

Housing All Those Stuffed Deer Heads.

Sip Cafe, Yarmouth, NS

September 14, 2023

Nearly 40 years ago Eye dressed

in Evening Dress

2 light cigarettes

for Asian Men

in a Japanese/Korean Piano Bar

somewhere in Uptown Manhattan —

Then Eye married

M(eye) Ticket 2 Nova Scotia

where, somewhere, Eye had

2.4 children

left butt not left

for a conniving Doctor

who kept Me in The Dark

financially & socially, drugged

for nearly 20 years

till now when Eye am alone

2 dress for The Day

where Eye make M(eye) Appearances

@ Lunches & Art Shows

often high-heeled

& always on time

(if not early)

Gully has a chick

as big as Gully

butt brown and speckled —

bleeting incessantly —

am Eye feeding him too?

Yes — he just found Gully’s bowl on the deck.

M(eye) 1st Commission Piece

is 2 be The Formalization

of a Wedding Dress

short, petite

from 1960:

faded chiffon of pink lemonade

w/ white crinoline petticoat satin-lined.

M(eye) Patron also gave Me supposed

accent colours of paint:

pink, grey blue & white

& She wants 2 remain anonymous

within The Process of filming

“M(eye) Creation”

(or is It Her’s?)

What She doesn’t know (yet?)

is that on September 1st of this year

Eye found a rusty chainsaw blade

@  The Recycling Depot in Oak Park

which Eye am very tempted

2 use as The Shadow Necklace

for a string of costume pearls

also entrusted 2 Me

AND what She doesn’t know

is that Eye found

a canvas painted in Autumn Reds

suitable for the juxtaposition

of dress, pearls

& chainsaw blade

perhaps symbolizing

the hazards of marriage

& Commission Pieces — HA!!

NOTE: The pearls are not necessary.

The Chainsaw Blade has become The Necklace –“a chain around your neck”

There’s an unfixed crack

along my driver’s side windshield

and today it blazed abright

at one point, globular

along my highway vision

and so Eye had my sparkler, lit

Yesterday Eye sent a letter

for which there will be no reply —

It didn’t warrent a reply

but Eye wonder what the reader thought

when Eye confessed to Him

that Eye would never let go —

Yes it was one of THOSE

Eye stood 4 shoulders deep

@ the front of the stage

for 6 hours @ least

getting M(eye) ears blasted

by Hard Rock

a couple of lovely songs

& whoopla yells

from a fat girl next to me:

Eye was designated VIP

because of an error in M (eye) $200 ticket.

Eye soaked up M(eye) $750 space

crammed in w/ fellow revellers

until night time fell

over The Giant Stage —

@ 11:00 20,000 fans

had 2 leave The Stadium

& Eye found lodgings

not in M(eye) car as planned

butt in a skanky motel

(complete w/ cop cars)

which charged Me $350

so Eye could shower & sleep.

Eye ate my scrambled eggs

on a glass top table

glistening underneath with dew

Eye sat

like a good little girl

listening to the surf

and the gulls

“Sitting Pretty” is on M(eye) Bedroom Wall

Again

The Flattened Coca Cola Can

sits against Its reddish floral background

& M(eye) Signature Black Drips

w/  4 Red Sequins

ensconces Its Form

Unsold

2 be admired by Me

Alone

Eye have a summer dress

seen by The Prime Minister

of Canada — He’s still

The Prime Minister

& Eye wear My Sleeveless Dress

of grey floral patterning

close-fitted

to The RCMP

where Eye have been asked

to make my statement

against the 92 year old

who needled two

of my tires

at the dance

last Saturday