childhood | Joanna Gilman Hyde

Tag: childhood

July 7, 2012

THE HAWK DECK 2:44pm

I suddenly feel older

by more than the fifteen years

since I dolefully reclined

in a wicker chaise longue

on the screened-in porch

built by My First Husband

— a porch sought for My Sanity —

yet used so briefly

I wonder how I remember it at all

–

This Deck I’m on now

in My Maturity

is an outpost for reverence

of All My Surroundings

occupied daily in good weather

and always in Good Mind:

I am healed now

— I long for nothing —

and have grown up

into The Full Observer

I was as The Child

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July 2, 2012

THE HAWK DECK 5:22pm

The Call of The Jay

is of My Childhood

but Here It Comes

with A View of The Atlantic

–

I have angled My Chair

to fit This Ocean:

a solid blue swath

merging with spruce

punctuated with birds

& topped by cumulus cloud

April 28, 2012

ASTRO

"No Body's Gonna Mess W' My Super Cat!" 

Today I got My Super Cat --

not the tabby from My Childhood --

Today I got ASTRO --

The Longest Living Cat From The Pound  --

The Biggest, Sleekest, Blackest Cat

picked out by Me when All I had To Go By

was a dark and haunted face

sticking out from a butterflied cat bed

advertising He Was Free!

(since He'd been there over a year

the adoption fee would be waived)

but now He's worth My Life --

I don't have to say "He's My Mascot!"

This Is All I Have To Say --

and I've said it to Him already:

"Astro, Wherever YOU go, I GO"
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written by Joanna Gilman Hyde Blair

on December 2nd in The Year 2010

(& not written in Her Diary)

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