Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: 9/11

A DAY OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Hawk Kitchen 7:06pm

This 11th day of month 2:

Gold has achieved a three month rise

not met in thirty years

& I am celebrating

by taking My Spaghetti

out of The Oven

@ 10:22

AFTERMATH (EYE DON’T LIKE THIS TITLE)

The Hawk Dining Room 10:44am

I watch the roiling ocean

still ramped up

after My Halo Scene last night

when I demanded of My Husband

Does He Know What Kind of Person He Is Dealing With —

or not:

A Witch or An Angel

Who brought down

The Twin Towers

with a flower?

DEMORALIZED

The Hawk Queen Bed 8:40am

I Am The Black Angel

when I see My Halo

I shit on My Husband

castigating Him

until He loves Me

no longer

WHERE IS SHE NOW?

The Hawk Kitchen 12:25pm

Stuck inside a snow globe

looking through Her Sliding Glass Doors

to The Ferocity of Earth

laid out before

Her Feet

seen from above

— or any angle for that matter —

She has six cats

two grown children

two husbands under Her Belt —

She dashes off poetry

as if The World

is All Hers

WHERE’S THE TRUTH?

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:50am

When’s it gonna come out

that I spawned 9/11?

When My Hair’s grown out

or when I open My Big Mouth

& tell The World

I lied?

HAIR PRAYER

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 3:42pm

Oh Hair Grow

when I inhale the fur

of My Big Black Astro

Oh Hair when I cut You off

22 years ago

how could I have known

I would have the love for You

that I do now?

You would be My Greatest Comfort —

I will gleefully brush You

braid You, pin You decoratively

care for You with balsamic solutions —

every follicle I own on My Head

please be rejuvenated and never

turn back to the darkness

of severity of Truth —

I want to live My Dream

& My Dream is You flying,

whipping Your Golden Fabrication

around My Shoulders

protecting Me as a mantel

of Hope & Love

for This World

of Happiness

We need so badly

NAME SCAN

Barrington Passage, NS 3:32pm

Today I saw My Name

in Lights

arrayed above

the grandiose machine

of Computerized Axial Tomography

Joanna Gilman Blair*

when One Technician asked about

The Middle Name

I thought He said

“Is that Your Real

Name?”

* My Mother named Me after Her Mother Josephine Meadow, and Anna Gilman Hill, American Horticulturist of Grey Gardens

VENTURE

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 2:50pm

EYE will put M(EYE) Self

on The Edge of Calamity

handing out M(EYE) cans of soup

gathering up M(EYE) Gold of Humanity

counting up M(EYE) Alien Silver

& nay praying

for Our Ultimate

Collapse

of Faith

BARRY KING

The Hawk First Window 11:20am

I have made M(EYE) Mark

against a brilliant wall

of grey

& if You want to know

where,

I’ll tell You:

in My New Exercise Room

AND UPON

OUR UNIVERSE

AVA’S BIRTHDAY

My Journal for statements

Tonight in My Bath

of necessity

I took out the purple

galaxies folding down around Me

& laid them on the edge

of The Universe

for safe-keeping