Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: earth

OWNERSHIP

The Hawk Deck 11:30am

I Am God THE OBSERVER

I Am God THE LISTENER

I Am A Human Being

In Love With The Land

Where She Lives

MORNING LIFE

The Hawk Deck 9:55am

I have The Solace

of a Day In June

cool, but garbed in My Grey Bathrobe

I am ready for a cup of tea

& more Bird Song

BONUM NON EST IN DEO:

On the Indistinction of the One and the

Exclusion of the Good in Meister Eckhart

“I Am The Child —

Big Black Book Upon My Lap

A Smattering Of The Universe

Bespotting This Page

Of Lights

From My Diamond Rings”

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:47pm

A Yellow Bird Told Me To Write This

The Hawk Deck 11:25pm

I Am God

And From God

I Am Not Separate

From The Tiny Wing-ed Bug

On My White Sleeve

in perpetuum

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:40pm

Oh that spinning game

where the grown-up grabs

the child’s wrists

& swings him/her around

& around

am I in this game

in the path of Earth & Moon

& that Adult —

Who is He?

RECTITUDE

The Hawk Deck 9:32am

I have seen The Little Grey & Yellow Bird

open Its Beak, twice,

to sing Its Morning Tune

to fly away

& return

to chirp again

and so all is right

in My World

My Painting will lead The Way

to The Global Stabilization

We are awaiting

in Our Hearts

& Mind

COMPORTMENT

The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:15pm

We Wear Our Minds Outside Our Selves:

if Our Hair is Frazzled

We have gone miles

in open wind

if Our Bellies are Big

We have gorged Ourselves

on Great Ideas

left under The Table

if We Smile

Our Contentment

may mean Our Wanderings

have lead Us

to Our Ends

if We Laugh

We are revealing

Our Most Primitive Selves

in defiance

of the psychiatric labels

for which We were sent away

HAPPINESS QUOTIENT

The Hawk Kitchen 7:15pm

I used to announce to Hunter

when I felt a wave of happiness

& now I have felt not The Wave

but The Smooth Line — The Flat Line

of complete fulfilment:

It came in My Kitchen

cooking Fettuccine Alfredo

with spaghetti noodles

& looking out the sink window

to the evening light

on the rocks

lining My Cellar Drive

THE MOURNING DOVE

The Hawk Portico 6:00pm

In the stillness of this evening

I have a call for The Hawk:

The Plaintive Cooing of The Mourning Dove

sounding clean & close above the others

so still am I in My Chair

I hear not even surf

but the buzz of a fly

& the sucking surge of The Grackle

The Wind Has Not Been In The Habit Of Dropping As Of Late*

The Hawk Kitchen 10:11pm

Out on My Deck

I drink in The Inspiration

of The Morning

with a North West Wind

at My Back

& coffee steeping

on The Counter inside

where My New Lettered Glass

lures Me to It’s Self

*quote from WHB