The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 6:20am
I Love The Sun
filling My Kitchen
accompanying the coffee pot
bringing the bird song in
through the screened
outpost window
& filling My Life
The Hawk Corner Room 5:45am
I watched The Sun Rise
first a golden glimmer —
then it popped up
rising faster
than it seemed to go down last night
–
I am off the anti-psychotic medication
I took to sleep for twenty-odd years
& am waking earlier
but feeling
great
The Hawk Portico 6:11am
The tail ends
of a Magnificent Double Rainbow
grace The Cape
at the crack of dawn
this morning
I saw It in Its Full Glory
at 5:44am
& texted all My Friends
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:58am
The thinnest strip of Silver
sets My North Eastern View
The Horizon line it designates —
starting at the scrub spruce
travelling to a brown roof top
where the center of The Horizon
turns dark grey
travelling to the second roof top
and beyond to My Neighbour’s
leafy tree
The Hawk West Desk Window 7:44pm
Hark — there’s a Silver Streak
along the Western Horizon
of My Evening View
I am rewarded
from a day of grey
to the embarkment
of broken cloud
and layered sun
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:55am
EYE am The Artist
standing at My Door
waving Good-bye to My Husband
dressed in My Thick Grey Robe
the substance of The Sky
today
on a day
when anything can happen
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 6:39am
The Sea is tarnished Silver
with an illuminated break above
We have done our best
to support a friend
who hears voices
and is trying out
a new regime
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:45am
Even when The Sea is dark
shrouded by heavy cloud
threatening to rain
on My Bedding hanging out to dry
The Sea is beautiful —
a slate grey swath
of magnificance
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:43am
The Sun is hitting The Sea again
burnishing It with Silver
The Clouds have moved across
and above
as the northward horizon
calls to Me
to look
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:11am
The Sky has shifted
to The North
I look straight out
My Sliding Glass Door
out past The Scraggly Apple
beyond The Scrub Spruce
to see illuminated clouds
streaked across
A New Horizon
Joanna Gilman Hyde 