Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: existence

AN INELEGANT VERSE

The Hawk Deck Steps 2:10pm

It’s in The Water

I drink

Which grows Algae

in The Toilets

but doesn’t make Me sick

It’s in The Water

in motion against

The Shore

Which I can’t live without —

without It I’d be sick —

It’s in The Water

from The Sky

without It We’d

All Die

MESSAGE

The Hawk Deck 12:18pm

They Spoke To Me

Last Night In Near Sleep

“We Can Help You”

& Signalled Me Through

My Mouth

–

The Hawk Hallway 12:32pm

Was It An Infusion Of Bugs

In My Body

Using One Remaining Sense —

My Sense Of Taste?

 

MY TOMATO-COLOURED COUCH

3:45pm

Southerly Surf resonates

in My Blood —

I’m composed of 50 Trillion Cells

or more —

How many of Them are My Blood

activated

by Each Surge of Sound

moving through Me

moving My Pen

as I sit with Knees up

on The Armless End

of My Tomato-coloured Couch?

THE HAWK KITCHEN 3:00pm

I just killed A Fly

on a ceramic apple tile

in My Kitchen

He was just washing His Front Legs

& I smashed Him

with My Open Left Fist

I picked Him up

from behind the toaster

& threw Him in The Trash —

He wasn’t delivering

any Alien Messages —

not Today anyway

OBSERVATION

The Hawk Deck 1:38 pm

All That I Have Lived For

Adds Up To This Moment

I Have Lost Nothing

–

The Clouds Progress From West To East

–

I Am In My Hour —

My Hour Of Refinement

RESTORATIVE VISION

The Hawk Living Room 12:15 pm

I have had an undulating vision —

a purple cave-like opening

dressed in Golden Fray

–

This moving Mountain-like form

contained not the thought

of The Little Man

but His Essence 

–

It pulsated at Me

slowly

pushing from behind My Eyes

& returned Him

to Me

ANXIETY

We have One Cat

Who Catches Birds

It Breaks My Heart

Every Time I Pick One Up

Off The Deck

headless or legless

to throw down The Toilet

FROM THE HAWK BED

Am I going to have to leave

The Island House

for one more winter?

There are still no buyers

spiders have taken over

Who will ever live out there?

–

 WHB just said, “You’re not in any place

where the bad things happened.”

–

 Will We keep The Island

in case the power goes out

here on The Hawk?

Will We load up Our Cans

& Sleeping Bags

& boat for The Solace

of That Place so loved

by My Mother

& Me?

SUNDAY MORNING

The Hawk Deck 8:40am

The Morning Sky is Silver

as I heed the wealth

of My Surroundings

–

The Surf is shushing Me again

while My Teacup steeps

My Husband sleeps

I assess the coolness of The Wind

–

9:40am

The Surf is Louder Now

It Wakes Me Up

To The Silver Streaks & Pools

across The Ocean

My Husband is Up

& We’re Having Coffee

–

11:40am

A Pair of Jays have come

to The Straggly Apple by The Deck

Others Join Them

so I have My Flock of Jays

Who squawk out My Growing Up

as They All fly off:

“You are in The Childhood

of Your Maturity

Here On The Hawk”

WHAT IS MY PREMISE?

Did God create The Dragonfly

to fly out of nymph-hood Today

of All Days?

Or has The Dragonfly created Itself

over eons

to emerge from arbitrary randomness?

–

I have been answered

by swarms of midges

screaming out to Me

for recognition