How Do You Get To Be Anything
Without Being A Wanna-be?
NOTE: Eye am already
everything I have ever
wanted to Be —
except a helicopter pilot —
not YET
The Hawk Deck 10:10am
I have said Good-bye
to My Darling Cow Bird
Whose love affair with My Car Mirror
is gone
He bowed off with another
female two weeks ago —
I have said Hello
to My Husband
and will be hanging The Bedding
in Our Hot Sun
I will be playing
The Cow Bird’s Song
on an internet recording
for The Arrival
of My Children
one week
tomorrow
The Tomato-coloured Couch 1:30pm
Not so long ago
I breast fed You, My Babies
and now You’re out West
planting trees, sleeping in trailers —
please have no truck
with bears or coyotes
have fun making lots of money
and stay safe
My Little Dear Ones
The Hawk Kitchen 6:55am
EYE saw the negative imprint
of a darkened galaxy
splattered on My Bread Board
when I went to make the coffee
I swept it in the sink
& wept for My Children
inwardly
Mumbo, are You Out There
in Those Bushes?
are You alive or
are You dead?
Will The Gulls & Crows
leave You alone?
Mumbo, are You gone —
no more Mumbolette
with The Big Feet?
Hi My name
Mombo the cat. I am
a very nice cat. I
love kids.
bye-bye
Joanna Gilman Hyde 