Joanna Gilman Hyde

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Tag: outdoors

I JUST SAVED A BUG

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:30pm

I Just Saved A Bug:

He must have come from My Star-studded Walk

to The Post Box

tripping past Galaxies

of Dandelions & Daisies

to return

to sit on My Tomato-coloured Couch

& I saw Him, Tiny Him

with wiggly legs

on My Right Grey Sleeve

(He wasn’t a tic)

I got up & went out to The Portico

where I showed Him The Edge

of My Red Plastic Deck Chair —

He Took It

I don’t know what He’ll find There —

The Fog Is On The Prowl

The Hawk Family Room 8:30pm

Today I left My Grey Purse

in a shopping cart

at Sobey’s cart corral

which says

In The Event of An Emergency

Gather Here”

It could have been a bomb

but My Grey Purse was found

by a Do-Gooder

& returned, unopened, @2:22

for My Husband

to pick up

THE PRAYER

The Hawk Deck 12:30pm

I just thought

a prayer

for the Life of

My Little Bird —

In My Mind I Said:

Please God, spare

The Life of

My Little Bird

I spoke to

The Divine

Outside of Me

MY LITTLE BIRD

The Hawk West Desk Window 10:30am

My Little Bird

Greeted Me Today

At The Top Of The Scraggly Apple

I Was Holding My Cup Of Tea

At My Open Kitchen Sliding Door

He Looked At Me And Sang

And Sang

I Could Hear The Surf

Beyond The Scrub Spruce

And I Was In My Element

I Am In My Element

CROWD-PLEASING CHANT

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22pm

WHO IS GOD?

We Are God

WHAT IS GOD?

We Are God

WHERE IS GOD?

Here Is God

WHERE?

Here!

WHERE?

Here!!

WHERE?!

Hear!!!

CALLING

The Hawk Deck 5:10pm

We Have The Birds

To Find A Singular

Song

Attributable

To A Distant Lover

Or A Child Long-missed

WHUZ UP IS DOWN

The Hawk Deck 12:30pm

Imma gonna turn

dis worl inside

out

dem stars is black

‘ginst d’ white

an Imma

wearin’

Ma Gym Cloze

an Red Kicks

RELIGIOUS FIGURE

The Hawk Deck 11:00am

I have turned into

a religious figure

dressed in purple robe

& sun hat

holding My mauve & gold

Journal

on My Knee

I hear the birds

a lawn mower

& write

of The Solace

I seek for Others

Who may share

My View

of The Internal God

NOW

The Hawk Deck 10:22am

Can You believe Me Now —

Do You believe Me Now —

Twenty Years after The Shower Of Lights

that I Am God

from Inside

No, I am not The External God

The Man in The Sky

I Am My Own Boss

with The Meaning of Life

under My Belt

 A Wilson’s Warbler singing His Song

out to Me

from The Scraggly Apple

Can You, Could You, Believe Me Now?

WAR

The Hawk Deck 9:11am

If there has to be

an Us & a Them

let Them be The Bugs

Silver has opposing properties

against The Super Bugs

& Bed Bugs must be fought

NYC is already taken over

by Cockroaches

& in the country

We have Tics

& Earwigs

with This War raging

We do have heroic stories

of Spiders being put outside

of Ants not being stepped on

& Bumble Bees saved

from drowing