Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: black

DARK HAWK

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:22pm

saw Dark Hawk in flight

against My Turbulent Sky:

Survival Power

FOR JACQUELINE RACE-RETFALVI

The Hawk Queen Bed 1:22pm

Trying to take a nap

with one Ativan

& My Doctor/Husband beside Me

I am in My Underwear

with snow squalls out Our window

— I don’t have My Glasses on —

everything’s all a blurb

THIRTY YEAR END

The Hawk West Desk Window 10:11pm

This First New Year’s Eve

for My “of age” Daughter

saw Her donning black stockings

in the back of My Ford Fusion

& tripping out to Her Fete (circumflex)

in Italian pressed leather heels

from Her Mother’s 1984

Rooftop Painting Party

BLACK ON BLACK

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:56pm

My Big Black Cat Astro

is stretched out, asleep

on a black velveteen mat

with only 2/3 of His Tail showing

on one end

& His Resting Head

& 2 paws — 1 stretched out —

on the other

GUT REACTION

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:05pm

My Voice is My Calling

pulling Me forward

into What, at What

I’m not sure

but I am feeling

a Gut Reaction

to The State Of The World:

My Innards Are Awkward

& telling Me so

HAPPINESS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:09pm

I have The Embodiment Of Physical Thought

periodically pulsating within Me, in My Gut

just below My Left Rib Cage

It calls My Attention

to whatever activity I am engaged in

— I feel It, The Embodiment, often —

The Thought It Carries

is always happy

It, The Pulsation, is The Tangibility

of Happiness

–

I am looking at A Star

— probably a planet —

and as The Star sets

behind black clouds

I summon It —

— The Sensation —

Happiness

THE WRITER

The Hawk Kitchen 2:30pm

I Am The Mystic

Dressed In Green On Green

Silver Medallion On My Chest

Quartz Crystal Question Mark Ring Off

to take out the trash

I Am The Spiritualist

I Am The Occultist

I Am The Seer

Writing With My Silver/Onyx Pen

Quartz Crystal Question Mark Ring On

My Mother’s Random House Dictionary Of The English Language

Unabridged Edition Open

To “Myself”

INTELLECTUALIZING

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:50pm

I am The Intellectual

sitting cross-legged on My Tomato-coloured Couch

drinking lemon-flavoured seltzer

from My Life Message Glass

–

I gaze from My Central Candle

to The Winter Window

& wonder when My “Good Morning, World!”

will enter every household

PESTILENCE

The Hawk Queen Bed 12:40pm

I am The Black Crow Lady

right fist clutching at My Heart

No More Supper For My Family

No Care As To Where The Food Comes From

Or Who Makes It

–

No More Ears For The Radio

only rain & sleet can calm Me now

–

No More quiet “Good Night”

I am about to yell out

a song so wild

You will wish Your Tinnitus

could consume You

PETULANCE

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:18am

I am in A Black Mood

but there is Power in My Madness

for I can wield The Hand

of Time

I can carry out My Wish

of no sickness within the scope

of My Reality

I can make Black Magic

into Child’s Play

and conduct The Truth

through My Fingers