The Hawk Family Room 5:30pm
How Many Old Women
live in houses with ailing men
& have to check the blankets
To See If They’re Still Moving?
March 22, 2011 7:35am The Lobby of The Quality Inn, Halifax Airport
I have never seen Two Women
— I thought one of Them was a Small Man
at first —
I’ve never seen Two Women
embrace like Lovers —
They obviously were Lovers —
They obviously Love Each Other
more than anyone else on the planet
–
*WHB just uttered this phrase and I used it
poem originally titled Lesbian Embrace
The Hawk Kitchen 9:37am
The Sun Is Blinding Me
With Silver
Off The Ocean
A Broad Swath
Taking In Fishing Boats
While I Drink My Coffee
The Hawk Kitchen 3:15pm
Today I Made Cookies
— it doesn’t matter what kind —
— it doesn’t matter I had to pound
the brown sugar into submission —
— it doesn’t matter They came out with arms & legs —
I Made Cookies
For The First Time
Since Making Hermit Cookies With My Mother
On McNutt Island
over 25 years ago
The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:14pm
Oh Bug I Saw You Again
Against My Beautiful Sunset
Were You Following Me?
Did You Know I’d Been Writing
& Stopped Only To Look?
The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:10pm
The Banking World Today
is being taken over
by Big Women & The Small Men Who Love Them —
The Men of Stature
are being pushed out
by Bossy Females
& Their Nugget-headed Partners —
The Men of Stature
try to find pens
to write customers’ notes
on the backs of business cards
while the pretty-faced sized 12 & 14
Women In Charge
explain to Their Nodding Female Customers
There’s A New System
of labelling a check that skips the scanner
as an apparently arbitrary #906
The Hawk Kitchen 11:15am
My House Is Someone
I Have To Hold —
I Put My Arms Around Her
& Hug Her Tight —
She Is Someone
I Care About
I Care Deeply
For My Beautiful Home
& She Glows With Pleasure
The Yarmouth Psychiatric Unit, Yarmouth NS
about ten years ago
Take One Firm Believer
Who Thinks She’s It
Throw In A Dose Or Two Of Scepticism
Stir It All Up
Heap On A Prayer
Cook On High
Until Ready To Serve
The Hawk West Desk Window 12:05pm
I Have A New Bible
to Thump —
Open It Clean Down The Middle
& Pummel It With Your Thumbs:
It’s Titled The Joanna Hyde School of Thought —
Believe In Your Self First
then believe in God
The Hawk West Desk Window 5:10pm
If I were God, Which I Am,
I would decree the legalization
of Gay Marriage
the decriminalization of Street Drugs & Prostitution
the illegalization of Abortion
the equalization of God & Humanity
Joanna Gilman Hyde 