June 28th, 2025
The Hawk Kitchen
11:22 am
Today Eye planted
M(eye) Silver Gleam
2 sit below M(eye) Eastern Window
2 catch residual rain
off M(eye) brick-red roof
against the muted leaves
of God’s softest green-grey
June 27th, 2025
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
8:05 am
Eye have a contraption of LIGHT
dangling in M(eye) East Kitchen Window:
The Bedazzled Star of Christmas Past —
The Suspended Crystal Decanter Top —
The Resinous Ornament
of Our Little Hot Air Balloon
(bought years ago 2 signify
M(eye) DHW Fantasy) —
These glinting accoutrements
of strung-together glitter
sway & twist before a pattern
of The Cross
inside M(eye) open sky-catcher
2 spark M(eye) Reconnaissance
of The Shower of Silver Lights —
M(eye) New & Delicate Apprehension
of The Glory of Treasured Refraction
June 25th, 2025
The Hawk Deck
10:30 am
This Is What You Call
Deck Living:
stepping barefoot onto weathered boards
(one rotten)
2 hear The Sea & See It Sparkle
2 feel The Bug-free Breeze
(except for the odd fly who might get in the kitchen)
2 languish in A Leopard-spotted Night Shirt
(appreciated once by a non-lover)
amongst The Newly Potted Blossoms
of A Planter’s Delight
while The Scraggly Apple accommodates
The Occasional Blue Jay —
now 2 drink Peppermint Tea
w/ Mexican Honey
(courtesy of Eliza’s Boyfriend) —
Eye could sit here all morning
in M(eye) Surprisingly Comfortable Folding Chair of slatted wood
(2 wooden Adirondack Chairs
are due next week, courtesy of Eliza)
writing poems & drinking, drinking
Tea & Sunshine —
It’s The Momentary Life of Leisure
& Eye am not minding being alone
except for The Cats
& Gully The 3rd
Who’s already had His Breakfast
of ancient canned beans —
He’s Off
June 25th, 2025
The Hawk Deck
8:38 am
Yesterday Eye bought a six-pack
of Red Petunias on sale
(it was the last pack @ Wilson’s
& M(eye) 1st ever purchase
of Petunias 2 plant)
2 go in a squarish concrete planter
hidden under M(eye) Deck
& completely forgotten
(Eye have no recollection of how or where
such a relic came into M(eye) Possession)
so Eye put driveway gravel
into its non-draining bottom
& filled it half-way
w/ scrambled dirt from M(eye) vacant flower bed
(vacant except for Poppies now)
& carefully extracted the rooted red blooms
nestling each pod
carefully into the old concrete hold
& VOILA!!
It came 2 LIFE —
The Red of The Petunias
is not the same Red
as M(eye) plastic pot of Geraniums
set upon The Glass-topped Table
taking in direct morning sun —
The Petunias now gracing
the cat-scratched post by the steps
are an Orange-y Red
as opposed 2 The Fuscia Red
of The Geraniums —
so now Eye have 2 Shades
2 compare
& neither is Blood-red —
That Colour has no place
out here on M(eye) Weathered Deck
(while Eye steep M(eye) 3rd Cup of Tea
& wait for 9:11
2 drink It…)
June 20th, 2025
The Hawk Queen Bed
9:23 pm
This evening Eye visited
Astro’s Grave in Port Clyde
@ M(eye) Kids’ Grandparents’
House on the chopping block
where The Bones of Astro remain
from when He died suddenly
& was buried by Eliza
on October 13th, 2022 —
Eye have not visited
His Grave since —
(not w/ any meaning in M(eye) Heart)
& Eye wasn’t sure It could be found —
Butt Eliza knew where It was
& directed Me over the phone —
Eye found It smaller than Eye remembered —
w/ only a few stones
marking the pit She dug & filled
that fateful day almost 3 years ago
underneath a large spruce
which has since broken in half —
Eye think now Eye will place Astro’s black stone…
June 16, 2025
The Hawk Deck
7:24 am
Gully can be a picky eater —
@ least Eye know He’s not starving:
He doesn’t really like
The Ancient Canned Beans
from when Dr Blair
was convinced The World was ending —
Oh, Gully will go after Them
@ first,
& drag His Little White Bowl
closer 2 Him w His Giant Beak
(that’s cute)
butt when it comes 2 eating His Fill
He pecks @ Them,
1 @ a time —
He doesn’t gobble gobble —
as You might expect —
& leaves a layer behind,
maybe for later?
June 15, 2025
The Hawk Utility Room
5:05 am
Eye can feel The Healing Power
emanating from M(eye) Arms of God Chair
down in The Utility Room
of M(eye) Hawk House
where Eye have M(eye) Children visiting
& where Eye have realized
Eye am decidedly Comfortable
Friday, June 13th, 2025
The Hawk Deck
5:39 am
Eye have A Hefty Cooking Pot
The Colour of Blue Chiffon
given 2 Me decades ago
by M(eye) Late Brother
The Dear HTWH —
tried 2 cook A Stew
Yesterday
butt It stuck on The Bottom
as The Enamel was worn
AND The Bottom was newly bulbous
tip topping on M(eye) flat stove-top
so @ The Joking Suggestion
of Howard’s Niece Eliza
I’m 2 make A Planter
for M(eye) Deck —
so Eye think Eye will plant
Yellow Begonias for Him
& put The Lid into A Painting
June 8, 2025
Eliza’s Room
10:22 am
Here in The Little Lavender Room
Eye Never Painted
W/ M(eye) Aquarium Drawings
& Neapolitan Icecream Blocks
Depicting The Giant Grain Elevator
In St. John New Brunswick
Eye Never Painted,
Eye Have The Gub,
M(eye) Beautiful Daughter
Conceived In M(eye) Mind
& Born In A Tub
After The Death of M(eye) Mother
Over 32 years Ago —
She Drinks Her Coffee W/ Cream
Brought By Me
2 Her Salvation Army Quilt
Trimmed W/ Aqua Green
As She Puruses Her Phone
For Information On Her
Latest Thrift Store Windfall
June 8, 2025
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
6:45 am
He Is M(eye) Pet
Butt He Has His Freedom
He Lives & Flies
Eye Know Not Where
& Comes 2 His Deck Every Morning
For Me 2 Admire
His Great Grey Wings
Tipped In Black
W/ White Underneath
& His “brrk brrk” for Breakfast —
Yesterday Eye Drove Past
A Gull Dead On The Hawk Road
& Hoped & Hoped It Was Not Mine
Joanna Gilman Hyde 