PRIVATE SIGN
The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:40pm
I saw A Silver Star
in My Sea of Red
It told Me of My Thought
That Moment in My Head
Joanna Gilman Hyde
"Good Morning, World!"
Tag: Nova Scotia
July 12, 2015
PRIVATE PRAISE
The Hawk Queen Bed 2:53pm
I saw A Silver Star
glinting in My Yard
It told Me I’ve done well
not telling will be hard
July 9, 2015
IT GOT ME
The Hawk Queen Bed 7:05pm
Two Nights ago I stupidly
laid My Back against
a cold red deck chair
& thought: “This could
give Me pneumonia”
There I sat
as I felt the cold seep
into My Left Lung
July 6, 2015
POEM TO A CAT
The Hawk Queen Bed 4:00pm
Oh Cat, My Cat
with the lemon-green eyes
the colour of Our Sheets
You are here
in this restful room
shaded to the sickness
it supports
I have You curled
at the end of the bed
in the afternoon soliloquy of fever
Oh My Cat
I Love You
July 5, 2015
DEE DEE
The Hawk Queen Bed 3:36pm
I met A Girl once
out by a pool
She had an assignment
to colour robin’s egg blue
in Her Colouring Book
I was told She lived
institutionalized
My Mother
didn’t approve
July 5, 2015
OPEN MORNING
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:45am
I raise The Window
on The Morning Light
to assure My Kitchen’s Order
I hear The Gulls
& know Their Flight
while Song Birds
choose to loiter
July 4, 2015
I HAVE FOUND HAPPINESS
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 6:34pm
I have found happiness
in the stillness of the air
I have found happiness
in the songs of the birds
I have found happiness
in the company of cats
& with a sleeping husband
I have found
that I am
whole
Joanna Gilman Hyde 