Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

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THIS BODY

The Hawk West Desk Window 1:40pm

This Body, dressed in space-spattered silk

is destined to be Something

Big in This Universe

This Body Is Being Saved

for The Voyage of An Eternal Lifetime

bound by One Other:  Star Man

Who Heeds The Call

of Other Worlds

where Time Travel

means growing

superficially younger

& where Gardens of Eden

Come Ten To A Block

MY PEOPLE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:22pm

I watched The Sun

born under a solid lip

of pink-streaked cloud

He arrived into This World

Radiant Red

while My Alien

squirmed inside

beneath My Lower Rib Cage

crying fiercely to Me

I AM ALIVE

STARS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:20pm

Within The Cauldron Of The Sun

Countless Stars Are Born

To Live Upon The Earth

Within Their Hazards

And Their Glory

We Live These Lives

Knowing Or Not Our Destinies

Until We Funnel Back In

Into The Sun Again

Leaving Our Shadows

Over This Eternal Playground

ALIEN LOVE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:30pm

My Alien is flaring up —

I think He is the embodiment

of My Estranged Love

— I felt Him, hard

hard against My Mid-drift

while My Daughter

put acetone on Her Toe Nails

& wrapped Them in tin foil

calling Them Her Space Toes

I felt Him, soft

soft against My Face

when I looked at The New Moon

& Evening Star

SIGN

The Tomato-coloured Cock 1:28pm

I have seen

The Symmetry

of The White Dragonfly

made up

of 2 White Trucks

nose-to-nose:

cabs for brains

beds for wings

spanning the mid-section

of Wilson’s parking lot

in Barrington Passage,

Nova Scotia

VOODOO ALIEN

The Hawk Living Room 9:22pm

I have an Alien growing

inside Me — He’s attached

to My Left Lower Ribs somewhere

I feel Him vibrate & tumble

when I sit at a desk

or even in a chair

talking to a friend — no

I have never felt Him

in Other People’s Presence

He is with Me when I am

alone

7:11

The Hawk Living Room 7:11pm

The World Needs

A Robust Love Story —

I Am Providing One

One With No Beginning

No End

One To Carry Us Through

Our Greatest Change —

The Human Realization

We Are Not

Alone

I.D.

The Hawk Living Room 6:53pm

Aliens have infiltrated

The Medical Profession

I saw One today, twice

— or I should say He saw Me —

while visiting My X Father-in-Law

@ Roseway Hospital

in teeny-weeny Shelburne,

Nova Scotia

OCTOBER 31st

The Tomato-coloured Couch 12:50pm

For Halloween I saw

Two Aliens in The Steel-framed Mirror

in My Purple Bathroom —

This Pair communicates

with hand gestures

subtle signals

mental telepathy —

This has been going on

for Twenty Years

This Halloween The Masks

were pulled down

Sun Glasses pulled up

THREE DAYS LATER

The Hawk Living Room 9:05am

The Sun is white hot

this morning

with Its Silver Blazing

over the water

The Crows are in an uproar

waves of Starlings are matting Our Lawn