The Hawk West Desk Window 6:20pm
We’re going to have A Pet Gull
I bet
One stood beside The Deck
right after supper
so I threw Him a heel of My Bread
in torn-off pieces
He kept catching
in mid-toss
The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:22pm
I just saw A Bird
atop The Scraggly Apple
(had time to get the binoculars)
I could swear It had A Wing
Its Left Wing
& Tail
hammered out of Silver
like armoured plating
beneath Its iridescent plumage
The Hawk West Desk Window 11:00pm
Over Seven Billion Human Hearts
are beating away —
some for the last time
some for the first —
how can Their Rhythms
be harnessed
for the awaited
Destiny of The Divine:
The Emblem of Far-reaching Truth
& Prosperity
of Our Organism?
The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:30pm
When I had My Shower of Silver Lights
over twenty years ago
I transferred
The Totality of God
on & into My Self
& spoke of It as such
ever since
Until Today
I spoke It all again
to a beautiful brown-haired woman
& by so doing
I
have
become
OURS
The Hawk Window Seat 3:10pm
Through My Screened-in Window
I Catch The Lupine & Wild Rose
Out By The Roadside
Rarely Travelled
The Lull Of The Surf
Out Past The Cape
Eases Its Way Through
The Song Of The Birds
& The Intermittent Play
Of Our Sunny Breeze
The Hawk Portico 5:00pm
My House faces South
here on The Hawk —
a spit of built-up sand
growing only scrub spruce
& beach dunes
— grass does grow in My Yard
except for a barren spot
where We can park —
but yes, This Is Where
I have found such joy
in the sounds of The Birds
& The Waves — Waves
all the way around —
I hear Them to My Right Today
as I gaze to the blue horizon
to My Left
The Hawk Portico 3:45pm
“All She did was sit
out on that front stoop
of Hers
while other women
hung out wash
or brought in groceries
She never seemed to have anyone
over
— Oh She’d talk on the phone
al-right
half The Hawk could hear —
but how could She just sit
like that —
sit & look
at The Ocean?”
The Hawk Portico 3:15pm
I live at A Beach Resort
out on My Portico
with potted palm fronds
to either side
& all The Bird Song
I could cling to
above
the gentle surf
out front
The Hawk Deck 10:40am
The Scraggly Apple
is a stunted tree
in My Back Yard —
The Only Tree
within Our Boundaries
used by various types of birds
as a deck-side outpost
for viewing and warbling:
I’ve seen Jays, Robins
Grackles, Sparrows, Warblers
and once a small Woodpecker
— anything heavier
would not be given perch
by Its nearly leafless
lichen-covered
branches
Joanna Gilman Hyde 