Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: black

“There Is NO Fooling Around”

Dear DVD:

I got your message

while I was eating My Spaghetti:

There Is NO Fooling Around

I know this now & I feel

We have entered 

a Completely New Phase

in This, Our

22nd Year

Facing My Black Star

The Hawk Living Room 2:22pm

I Am The Fury

The Black Heat Of Possession

Red-bladed

Against

The Purple Heart

Of My Third Child

1961

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:30pm

I am That Infant

born of Childhood Playmates

Who should never have married

carried in the arms

of Dr Albert Schweitzer

forever held in a black & white photograph

hanging in The Dining Room

of Dr W Hunter Blair

MY PAINTING

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:15pm

I have painted

The Sacred Heart

The Bon Jovi Heart

The Broken Heart

of My Third Child

I have painted

The Silver Lights

of My Black Star

violent

immovable

immortalized

beyond Me

ELEMENTAL

The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:11pm

I Am The Lady In Black

and charcoal grey

Who likes to write

about Her Self

as The Transformation

The Growth

from a thirty-something

mental patient

badly misunderstood

tortuously disbelieved

turned

Figure

Of Prominence

in Her Local Community

and about to hit

at 54

The World  At Large

Signed October 22, 2014

approximately 8′ x 5′ acrylic & oil

My Black Star

 

HYDE 10/22

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:27pm

The Tomato-coloured Couch

has been moved

away from Its Wall

in order to make room

for The Installation

of My Black Star

tomorrow,

signed & dated Today

My Fierce Love

The Hawk Window Seat 12:22pm

I Am Holding

A Cumbersome Star

It Is Making Me Hot

& Sweaty

It Is My Big Black Star

Astro

Who Doesn’t Want To Be Held

BLACK LIGHT 2

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:00pm

I come from The Body

of Black Light

In Death & Sickness

I abide

to shine out

for Reconciliation

I am The Stamp

of Desperation —

Humanity gone

awry

in order

to See

SINISTER STAR

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:22pm

I have painted

The Sinister Star

It is lying/drying/dying

on My Basement Floor

to be erected

upon My Living Room Wall

where It will rise above Me

as I sit on My Tomato-coloured Couch

writing of Its Existence