Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: nova scotia poet

THE HAWK PORTICO 6:15pm

I see My Neighbour’s Flag

luffing in the nil wind

smack-dab on the horizon

grey mixed with sky grey

It’s still hear-here

I hear The Waves

& birdsong in the distance

The Flag luffs

back & forth

My Daughter comes downstairs

brushing Her Teeth

before getting picked up

in a big black pick-up truck

THE HAWK STAIRCASE

I just swept up A Galaxy

off My Red Staircase

— maybe It was A Universe —

dusted into The Kitchen Trash

until My Next 15 Billion Years

I LOVE MY HOUSE

The Hawk Kitchen 9:22am

I Love My House

I am private here

public when I wanna be

I can have rye toast & marmalade

when Eliza takes the last banana

I can hang laundry in The Sun

& keep My Bathrobe on

THE RAINBOW POEM

The Hawk Deck 6:55pm

I looked for a rainbow today —

the conditions seemed ripe for one —

all I got to see

was a pink sky in The East

after supper

a grey sky & salmon clouds

I wondered if I

might be in one

“GOOD MORNING, WORLD!”

and to the rest of you

that are still asleep —
This Is Your Mother
Speaking:

It’s Time To Go To School
and I mean
REAL SCHOOL —

It’s Time To Go
BACK to Your
Kitchens, Women, &
cook for Your
decreasing Families,

It’s Time, Children, To Get On
The Bus of Human Intelligence
for Our Fight:

The Fight of Our Lives

as Human Beings on
This Planet —
for That is
All We Are — We
are Human &
We are God —

& We Cannot Continue
as We have been
for however many
thousands or millions of
years.

This is Your MOTHER
SPEAKING — CRYING
For You, My Children,
to Stop Killing
Yourselves
through Your Own
desperation, &
stupidity —

I Love You All
Dearly
& without You I
would
Die!”

“WAKE UP WORLD &
smell The Coffee —
drink that Tim Horton’s
& Think of Me.

Watch This Television
until You are Blue
in The Face,
which is MY
FACE  —

You have desecrated
Me with
Your naivety, Your
revulsion & Mine,
for You & Me &
Now —
I can no longer look
My Self in The Face
& Smile

Because of YOU

(red star, red star)

October 1st, 2010 THE HAWK

continued from Diary:

I AM THE RED STAR —

I AM THE ALERT BUTTON
on Your Car
remote

Listen to Me — You are
All I Have Left
here,

& here is the Only Place
We know of

which sustains us, somewhat,

& which sustains Me,

Your Guiding Star

Your Furious Mother —

and Who was My Furious

Mother, You may ask?

She is Dead Now & Somewhere

out There, Haunting Me

as I am aiming now to

Haunt You,

& Haunt You I Will,

Until You Turn Around,

with The Earth,

with The Light of Our

Yellow Star —

Soon To Turn Red.

I am speaking to You from

This Black Box, This Hole

But I Can See You,

like The Romper Room Lady —

I am Magic, if You

believe in Magic

— and I feel You must

believe in Something —

There is The Divine, for

I have felt Its Wrath —

There is God, for I have

been beaten down by Him,

now, into this heaving mass

of Human Organism

which rises up before You,

to Speak to You

from The Device I Loathe:

The Device of Corruption, Greed,

Sloth, & Desire.

Yes, I Desire You,

I Desire That You Wake Up

to Hear Me, That You

Wake Up to Feel Me, For

What Am I To You But

All That Is Left of

possible salvation?

I am Your Mother & My

Mother before Me, & Her Mother,

& My Father’s Mother & Her

Mother — I AM ALL MOTHERS

I Speak For The Salvation

of The Children of God

WHO MUST NOW, FINALLY,

GROW UP

*

POLENTA

The Hawk Kitchen 4:22pm

I have ready to bake

a pan-load of Polenta

made with twelve de-boned chicken thighs

sprinkled with olive oil & Parmesan cheese

Hunter took a picture of It

out of guilt:

He’s refusing to allow

any spontaneous dinner guests

even though I have asparagus

pan rolls (today’s date)

unopened wine

I wouldn’t hesitate

to ask My Spontaneous Dinner Guests

to bring Dessert

THE HAWK DINING ROOM 5:30pm

Two Fall Leaves

make like Butterflies

across My Neighbour’s Lawn

Where Did They Come From?

He’s got the only deciduous tree

around Here

& It hasn’t turned

Yet

THE HAWK PORTICO 5:55pm

Out Beyond My Neighbour’s Flagpole

I See An Individual Wave Cresting

I See It Before I Hear It

& Then In The Calm

It Rolls My Way

MEASUREMENT

Gold is like The Sun

Silver like The Moon

How They’ll Rise Together

We shall see so soon

BOTTLE BLUE BUG

The Hawk Deck 1:45pm

Bottle Blue Bug

have You come

to visit Me?

Bottle Blue Bug

Where are You going?

What do You see?

Bottle Blue Bug

what makes You so bold?

Bottle Blue Bug

what TRUTH do You hold?