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