The Hawk Corner Room 10:44am
I know a beautiful woman
with raven hair
sprinkled with Silver —
She hears voices
criticizing Her Every Move
and She lies, sedated,
in My Oh So Familiar
Psychiatric Unit —
Lord I love Her
& She writes & paints
and I would do anything
to make Her Voices
into Messages of Courage
and Support
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:42pm
EYE carry A Poem Of Mine
with Me now
in case I need to read It
out loud —
EYE could read It anywhere
any time
even in The Dead Of Night —
It’s “Good Morning, World!”
written five & a half years ago
EYE am ready
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 11:26am
Today I picked up A Star
(Silver of course)
off My Thick Grey Bath Mat
It glinted at Me
as I sat on the toilet
and so I caught It
on My Left Index Finger
and scraped It off
with My Little Metal Star-scraper
into A Little White Box
of Indeportenz*
and named It
Joanna
*word of mine from My Childhood used to describe small collections of special things and later business envelopes and their contents My Mother would give Me to play with — usually junk mail.
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:54am
A funny thing happened
this morning when I woke
at dawn:
I thought I was in Hunter’s Bed
& thought immediately of moving
into Eliza’s
when I realized I was
already there
*My Blog is Four Years Old
The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:00pm
Today I watched
a Universe drift through
My House — It started —
if I can use that phrase —
under a table in The Living Room
which displays The Heads of Hunter & Rudy*
and when I opened the front door
to let a cat in
(She changed Her Mind)
The Universe swept Its Self through
My Dining Room
and into The Kitchen
to roll to a stop
helices intact
string theories in place
at My Grandmother’s wrought iron chair
where I sit
to look out
*Rudy died on Tuesday, April 26th. He never got to see the sculpture.
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:05am
At Jordan Bay
My Grandmother
always watched The Ocean
dazzling —
She would tell Me
about The Diamonds
and Stars
and She would
allow Me to
relish Them and to
revel in Them
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:34pm
M(EYE) BODY STAR
is a diamond
M(EYE) BIRTH STONE
with one line of radiating silver
out from each of four points
M(EYE) BODY STAR
is hard and dark
ten and a half feet high
not yet signed
while specks of glitter
silver and black
follow Me around
M(EYE) HOUSE
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:05pm
I have M(EYE) BODY
figured out —
after a blood red flood
(it was blood after-all)
I have the beginning of a star
in the center
& black drips adding action
along three of four sides
The Format is vertical
eleven feet high
The Star will be configured
according to
M(EYE) MIND
The Hawk Kitchen Sink 5:02pm
Into a cauldron
of an old half gallon
of “Deliciously Hot 2E1-8 F122”
I stirred all the reds
& purples I had from years ago
diluted with several sour cream containers
of water:
old tubes of Dioxine Purple
Permanent Alizarian Crimson
Cadmium Red Hue
Permanent Magenta
Permanent Rose —
I was going for Blood
but what I got
is Female Genitalia
The Hawk Basement 10:34am
Last Night I had to roll
up My Aquatic Foliage
as I had signed it off
unsuitably for My Husband’s
viewer-ship
& so It lies
on My Basement Floor
ready to be saturated
with RAID
Joanna Gilman Hyde 