Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: nature

“You’ll Have To Do Another Sculpture”

The Hawk West Desk Window 9:38pm

He lay flat out

My Longest Cat

black before The Window

of The Sun having

gone

STAR SET

The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:32pm

I See A Peach-coloured Star

lowering Itself

beneath the wires

sinking into the fog

of the shoreline

It Is My Home Star

SUPPER SILVER

The Hawk Hallway 6:50pm

Silver Glows

Upon The Westward Sea

The High Wires

Glitter In The Sun

Still High

While My Fish

Melts Under The Broiler

DIVINE UNIVERSE

The Hawk Kitchen 8:19pm

coagulating

filaments of sour cream

swirl in the round

KILLER FORCE

The Hawk Kitchen 5:47pm

A Silver Fish on the corner

of My Husband’s writing desk

just went SPLAT

when I slapped My Left Palm

upon Him, He Who was just sitting there

like a spy —

I killed A Bug

to save My Life

and The Sanctity of My Home

OUTER BANK

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:00am

The Sea is NOT Silver

Today — can You believe it?

It is the colour of The Cloud —

laden sky — with the tapered end

of a fog bank to the East

rising up like an elongated

iceberg

in the middle

of My Glacial View

PERFECT MADNESS

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 5:50pm

I have lint bugs elasticized

around My Underwear waist bands

I have seen spies in the little hospital

where I had My Blood drawn

and urine sample surrendered

Am I Going Mad

or is this all perfection

of idiosyncrasies

like The Inclusion I so love

in My Birthday Diamond Ring?

ASTRO JASPER COSMO

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:38pm

Astropithicus is a stately cat —

He sits, shoulders high

above the top step

of My Deck in the evening

overcast by motley clouds

His Blackness is distinct

His Low-lidded Eyes are green

& look straight at Me

through the sliding glass door

TEST

The Hawk Kitchen 3:26pm

I am having to pee

into a flower shop vase

to collect twenty four hours of urine

in an orange plastic jug

for PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA —

a benign tumour on the adrenal glands

causing sporadic high blood pressure

possibly linked to My Halo

My Beloved Halo

TO BE SEEN

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:35am

The Silver Band of Ocean

barred by black cloud

illuminates the feathered white

above all

presenting The Glory

of The Day

at hand