NEWS FLASH
The Hawk Computer 6:04 pm
My Husband, Dr William Hunter Blair, now believes
that My World Trade Center Roof Top Painting from 1984
titled Self Organizing Galaxy
may have given someone the idea
for 9/11
Joanna Gilman Hyde
"Good Morning, World!"
Tag: teenage
March 2, 2013
I FEEL NORMAL NOW
The Hawk Corner Room 10:37am
Eliza is off to Italy
I’ve washed Her Bedding
& re-made Her Bed
I’m Showered & Changed
into moss green & taupe
eating a piece of Ancient Grain Toast
& drinking a cup of tea
in Eliza’s tidied Corner Room
I may not run into DHW
before He leaves again
but now, for some reason
I don’t really care
February 14, 2013
VALENTINE
The West Desk Window 11:26pm
I have been arranging My Daughter’s Roses
for years it seems
at least since We moved to The Hawk
when bouquets started coming through the front door
from boyfriends and mothers
— some ended up dried
to be arranged again in fake crystal
or an old pewter pitcher —
tonight the heftiest bunch of all
came in with fluid-providing tubes
& baby’s breath to be thrown away
as I clipped twelve stems
stood Them in My heaviest vase
& carried The Arrangement
upstairs to Her Dresser
February 7, 2013
WHAT HAPPENED?
The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:10pm
What happened to The Effervescent Girl
of Yesterday
Who willingly drove into Shelburne
for lunch & coffee
with Her Daughter
dressed — The Effervescent Girl —
care-free in Her LL Bean Jeans & Blouse
delivering Her Daughter’s grad photo
to be framed
What happened to make today come
where She finds Her Self
tired & sullen
dressed again in black
to drive to Yarmouth
for Her Husband’s CT Scan
to come home to a trapped cat
Who’s made an unwashable mess
on Eliza’s comforter?
January 26, 2013
MY BROTHER & I
The Hawk Kitchen 4:25pm
The only two adolescent
car accidents
I was in
were with My Brother:
The First where I was driving
with a low rear tire I had neglected to fill
–it went flat on The Taconic
& Howard yelled “We’re On Ice!
Hit The Breaks!”
I listened & rolled Our Mother’s Volkswagon Squareback
into a cliff-side snow bank
and limped home with the spare put on
by kind fellow motorists
tutt-tutting about teenage drivers
The Second Howard was driving
when We were mistakenly headed
for The Holland Tunnel
so I directed My Brother to “Turn Here”
into a No U Turn
He listened
& pulled out into oncoming traffic
We got rear-ended
but were able to drive
His Baby Blue LTD home
I wrote a letter of apology
to the owner of the wrecked green Volvo
Who later said he had never
gotten a letter like that
January 19, 2013
I REMEMBER
The Hawk Kitchen 6:50pm
I remember those dirty-necked boys
— what they tried with me —
the one in 4th grade
who put dimes in my desk
until he confessed
& breathed his lips
across my neck —
the one on my father’s farm
who shifted in the bed
of an old pick up
to the left of me on an extracted truck seat
under a discarded printed comforter
I distinctly remember —
he tried nuzzling me:
“What are you doing?”
“Giving you a hickey.”
“What? — I’m only eleven!”
December 31, 2012
PORTRAIT
The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:25pm
She stood in Our Family Room
Entry Way
8 feet tall in platform pink stilettos
dark mini & worked-on hair
straight
asking for a ride
to the beginning of Her Partying
equipped with a little one-shot bottle
of Black Crown Royal
I gave Her with Her Roses
on Christmas Eve —
now It’s New Year’s
She’s out in The Wind
messing up Her Hair
as She climbs into My Escape
& climbs out at a Black Dodge Ram 1500:
Her Trophy Legs are all I can see
disappearing down Her Boyfriend’s Drive
December 31, 2012
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
Joanna Gilman Hyde 