Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: spirituality

FOG CLOUDS

The Hawk Portico 3:15pm

I can hear The Waves

in one direction

& watch Them in another

The Fog Clouds dissipate

underneath a patterned sky

& I am momentarily in The sun

OPEN AIR

The Hawk Queen Bed 12:10am

I can hear The Open Air

breathing through Our Bathroom Window

— Its off The Bedroom —

I can go to sleep

dreaming of The Waves

& My established friendship

with The Night

I LIVE HEAR

The Hawk Deck 8:57am

I can stand on My Deck

in the faint morning sun

to hear the waves more audibly

than usual —

I can hear the chickadees calling

briefly

I am so grateful

(but You know that already)

TIME NOTATION

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22pm

He sees Me as I see Myself

He knows Me as I know My Self

He is My Mirror Image

I will follow Him forever

as He has followed Me

since The Dawn of Time

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

MINE

The Hawk West Desk Window 1:22pm

Mine is The Face

He fell in love with

monitoring My Pregnancy

with My Son in 1987

–

Mine is The Stomach

He patted at the end

of each appointment

–

Mine is The Voice

He adored in Its Stridency

October 22, 1993

when He allowed Me to tell Him

“There is A God”

–

Mine are The Arms He caressed

–

Mine is The Brain

He used to send His Telepathic Message

on Divine Love

–

Mine is The Body

He refuses now to doctor

BLUE WORLD

The Hawk Portico 2:00pm

I have the luxury of gazing

out over the azure blue

of The Atlantic Ocean

of listening to The Gulls and Crows

for Whom I must be some small part

of Their World

as They are such a large part

of Mine

MAIL

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:22pm

On My Way To The Mail Box

I Passed A Roadside Spread Of Asters

Pale Lavender Star-shapes Against The Golden Grass

And Auburn Leaves Of Fern — There Was No Mail

But As You Can Guess

That Hardly Matters

RECESSION

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:33pm

I sit in That Golden Light

until It, or I,

goes behind A Bank Of Cloud

THE WISH

The Hawk Deck 11:22am

That same spot of Ocean

where I saw The Sun come up

this morning

is vacant now

beyond the scrub spruce —

I cling to It

as one might a heavenly body

in twilight

& perhaps even

say a wish