Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

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FAME & FORTUNE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:00pm

One Day My Writing —

My Scrawling Penmanship —

Will Be So Valuable

The General Public Will Scrounge

In Sobey’s Garbage Cans

For My Discarded Shopping Lists

I’M ON ALERT

The Hawk Corner Room, Home of My Globe 8:11pm

I have landed on Alert

True North

to make My Proclamation

that santa claus is Poison —

santa & his elves & raindeer

& mrs clause too

need to be wiped off

The Face of This Planet —

This Planet which is My Face

I will dedicate My Life

to The Restoration

of Children’s Minds

MORNING GOLD

The Hawk Dining Room 8:15am

The Sun is Gold

upon The Ocean —

I cannot forget Gold

It sustains Our Economy

such as It is

& when I look behind Me

I see The Window’s Shadow

warm upon My Mirrored

Wall

STAFF

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:30pm

They came from everywhere

flapping in Their Black Aprons

I stood amidst Their Alien Gaze

in the foyer of Sobey’s

collecting My Two Cases

of lemon-flavoured

sparkling water

 

ALERT 2

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:22pm

My Halo is back

visiting Me for half an hour

while I listened

to world financial forecasts

with Hunter

SILVER BULLET

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:33pm

I will not be burned

at the stake I will be shot

in The Back again

THE PLAY

The Hawk Kitchen 9:30am

Yesterday I put on a play

for My Husband —

 I dressed in Eliza’s Black Satin Robe

& My World Trade Center Earrings

took My Wedding Rings Off

& declared to WHB

that He houses

The Most Dangerous Woman In The World —

then the gold and silver pin holding My Robe

exploded off Me

causing Me to change

into My Silver Grey

with Earrings of Dangling Gold

from Africa

& rhinestone bracelet:

a bauble of The Earth

I HAVE CONQUERED GOD

The Hawk Dining Room 2:54pm

Nietzsche declared God Dead

but Joanna Hyde

has swept him aside

INTERVIEW WITH GOD

The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:11pm

Q:  God, what has made You

appear in this time We are in?

A:  I have been here all along —

yet I have revealed My Self through

The Light Of Silver

apparent only in the Dawning

Of The Dark.

Q:  Do You feel We are entering

a period of Darkness?

A:  Yes, We are already here.

Q:  How do You see Us getting out?

A:  When All Of Humanity

comes to the realization

that It, Humanity, is

The Collective Mind

of God — We will have begun

Our Exit from The Dark

into The Celebration

Of The Dark,

The Unknown.

Q:  Are We entering a period of

The Unknown?

A:  Yes, there too We are already in It.

Q:  Do We need to turn to alien intelligence

to cope?

A:  Nope.  We have what It takes.

We must simply measure Our Minds of today

with those of the past.

We must look back

in order to see

Our Future.

MIGHTY MORNING

The Hawk Dining Room 9:30am

The Morning Glare

off My Ocean

fills My Room

with liquid light

I glimpse My Self

in My Mother’s Mirror

to catch That Figure

of foreseeable might