Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: 9/11

THE MILKY WAY

The Hawk Portico 5:00pm

I Am A Galactic Citizen

spelled out on the bronze flyleaf

of My Diary — housed

within the confines

of outer and inner space

where nothing happens

with-which We are aware

except by Way

Of Human Ejaculation

At The End Of My Journal

The Hawk West Desk Window 6:34pm

My Famous Shower Of Lights

was not blinding

Its Radiant Spears

Snapped Me To Attention

and Made Me See

For An Eternity

GALACTIC CITIZEN*

The Hawk Kitchen 7:10pm

In The Briefest Moment

I Saw The Spiral

Of A Particle Of Dust

Against The Black Of My Cell Phone

And Suddenly Understood

The Necessity Of FORM

Before My Breath

Took It Away

*Robert David Steele

Open-Source Everything Manifesto

FROM A WOULD-BE ANTI-CHOICE PROTESTER

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:57pm

What would I say if faced

with a pregnant woman about to walk

into an abortion clinic?

“That Human You Carry

Comes From You —

To Kill It Is To Kill A Sacred Part

Of Your Self”

CREATIONISM

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:25pm

The House Fly I cupped

in My Right Hand

and released beyond

My Front Door

knows My Scent

and carries It with Him

into Reality

PATIENCE

The Hawk Basement 12:55pm

I have seen The Face

of Patience

pitted against & between

two V.I.P.’s

as I was when I was twenty-three —

then the men were heads

of The World Trade Center

the three schools of Cooper Union —

thirty years later the men

are two country doctors

with so much more

than initials

— They Have Me —

next to Their Names

 

FOR POTTERFAN97

June 15, 2014 The Hawk Queen Bed 10:53am

I have carried My Body

through These 22 Years

first shuffling, now striding

poised in readiness

for any meeting

haphazard or planned

to jump to new heights

landing Who Knows Where

or Why?

RED & WHITE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:22pm

I stare across

to My Neighbour’s Canadian Flag

stretched out & shivering

in the gusts

I feel My Veins quickening

& know too hard

The Eye is self-trained

to soak in The Flickering

& feed It to The Blood

LAST NIGHT’S SILVER

June 8, The Hawk Living Room 10:00pm

I’ve Caught The Moon

In My Living Room Sky Light

Arriving

Through This Late

And Early

Evening

I See Its Thin Beam

Shining Down To Our Balcony

Through The Spindles

Defining Shadows

Of The Luminous Streaks

Of My Age

 

BLACK STAR

The Hawk West Desk Window 10:22pm

2 I Am Black Star

2 I Have The Whole World

2 Reading My Mind