Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: poetry

FAIT ACCOMPLI

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:56pm

I’m not a social climber

I’m already @ The Top

My Friends are Intellectuals

My Family from The Elite

I live a Life Of Privilege

with My Handsome Husband/Doctor

&

The Companionship

Of

A Little Man

What Is M(eye) God?

The Tomato-coloured Couch 11:25am

M(eye) God Is

By Its Very Nature

The Machinations Of Humanity

Within The Structure

Of All Living Organisms

Intertwined W/ The Bugs

& Held In Check

By The Oceans

DIFFUSION

The Hawk Deck 3:00pm

I Have Seen The Perfect

Nautilus

Within My Universal Vision

— the sink It was —

Showing Me The Perfect

Form Of Reproduction

& Through My Chaos

of hand-washing

I Diffused The Spiral

Only To Let It

Re-set

in ever-smaller

smatterings

The Night Of My Future

The Hawk Deck 8:30pm

Will The Low Cooing

Of The Mourning Dove

Be The Sound Of The Hawk

When I Leave?

Or Will It Be The Waves

I’ll Hear As I Head Out

Into The Night Of My Future

Seeking Only

To Find

The Repetitions?

All That I Have Lived For

The Hawk Deck 7:47pm

All That I Have Lived For

Is Wrapped Up In This Moment

As I Am Wrapped In My Heavy Grey Bathrobe

With The Spears Of Light Forever Above Me

And All Down Around Me

How Have I Gotten This Far?

Through A Child’s Adoration Of A Pair

Of Love Birds To A Mother’s Love

Of Her Dearest 2.4’s

The Evening Light Is Upon The East

Illuminating The Scrub Spruce Forest

And I Have Come This Far

THE NEW GULL

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:38pm

A Black-headed Gull

blown in from the storm

circled over Me

as I threw

bits of bread

on the newly cut lawn

He landed beside Me

for probably the first

square meal

He’s had since

He was carried to Us

FOCUS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:55pm

I am an attention-seeker

— getter —

I get what I want

because I keep It in focus

It’s not a matter of luck

— I hate that word —

It’s A Matter Of Mind

POWER 2

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:17pm

I Am Writing

With My Black & Silver Pen

In A New Book

Of Black, Power

Black

Like The Hurricane

Approaching Tonight

From The Eastern Seaboard

Of The United States

I Sit In My Wrought Iron Chair

& See Only Fog

No 150 km/hr Gusts Yet

Spiralling Into Our House

But I Am Nervous:

Where Is Self Organizing Galaxy?

On The Minds

Of Thousands —

Soon To Be Millions?

CLEANING FLUID

The Hawk TV Room 12:05pm

I Sprayed An Arm

Of The Galaxy

Across A Glass Table

Nobody Saw It

But Me

SILVER SUN

The Hawk Outpost 8:45am

Moving in and out

between The Clouds

My Silver Sun

greets Me through The Mist

and says Hello to The World

illuminating

My Silver Sea