Joanna Gilman Hyde

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Tag: religion

GOOD GOD

The Hawk Kitchen 6:47pm

I See A Bird Of Silver

Against A Cloud Of Grey

It Signals To Me

All Is Well

And This Is How We’ll Stay

COMPLEXION

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:00pm

I Am Black Jesus

I Am Red, Yellow, Brown, White

Purple Is The Colour

Of My Massive Heart

My Hair Is A Rainbow

I Wear No Clothes

But Unlike The Emperor

I Know That I Am

Naked

HERALD

The Hawk Dining Room 8:56am

I am awakened by a heavenly sky

framed within the arched window

of My Dining Room

The Light cuts through

the cracks of cloud

to re-create striking fields

of Grandest Streaks

reaching diagonally over The Water

illuminating Its Stretch

THE STAFF OF LIFE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 1:15pm

I held a wafer-thin slice of home-made bread

and breathed to My Self:

“This Is The Staff Of Life”

I placed The Slice, along with The Remainder of The Loaf

on a white plate

and served It to The Crows

in the snow out back

SPECTRAL RAYS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 10:22pm

In The Evening of My Living Room

I caught the very last glow

of My Little Chinese Tea Light

which, when I looked at It

through the top of My Glasses

provided Me with a visual recount

of The Shower Of Silver Lights

which befell Me

in all Its slashing, flashing

Glory on March 31st, 1993

and Which I have faithfully recalled

to My Mind’s Eye

in the broad light

of every day

since

SELF-CONTAINMENT

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:22pm

I am self-contained

I do not need another

half

a partner of religion

of life

I can eat My Ice Cream

alone

on My Tomato-coloured Couch

and not worry

about

a God-damn

Thing

9/11

The Hawk West Desk Window 4:11pm

ICONIC POWER:

WESTERN FEMININE APPEAL

COLLIDES WITH ISLAM

SNOW JOB

The Hawk Kitchen 1:10pm

My Voice Is Signalling Me

To Write Of The Abomination

That Is Christmas:

How Can I Devour

The Little Children’s Innocence

When They Hear Of Santa

Coming Down A Vaginal Chimney

When They Hear The Living Lie

Of That Baby Jesus

Immaculately Conceived?

BLACK FRIDAY

November 28th The Hawk West Desk Window 2:34pm

Black Jesus, He  a’Comin’

He gonna melt all dat snow

off dis Big Fat Snow Job

He gonna come outta hidin’

throw You a fast ball

He workin’ dis X Miss

He gotta girl fren

She be Him sometime

Dey works si’ by si’

Dey in love

MY WHITE TRUCKS

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:55pm

White Trucks are mechanical Angels of Mercy

I saw One driving out of the polling station today

after voting for My Liberal MLA

(Member of The Provincial Legislative Assembly)

Whom My Husband says is Pro-Life