The Big Red Spot
from My Period
on the well-rumpled bottom sheet
is My Red Star
STOP
with My Big Black Astro
pawing around
the wrinkles
BLACK
STOP
WHITE
STOP
RED
Power is Out
Thunder is Up
Out My West Desk Window
I See The Squat Steeple
of The New Testament Baptist Church
I have never been There
in That Solid White Building
at My Eye Level
10:13am
I had thought I might seek
Pastor Lavender
in desperation
but My Days of Desperation
are over–
I will seek Him
in My Happiness
eager to read
Darlene’s recommendation
of Jeremiah’s poetry
10:22am
If I Can Find
A Bible
(NO CLAP OF THUNDER)
It was a Pristine Bathroom
in a Doctor’s Office
with stainless dispensers
I could have
written on anything
I could have written
with My Purse’s Big Black Pen
but I didn’t
I Am Too Close
to This Profession
“Excuse Me, I found This Purse
in The Parking Lot. I didn’t
look in It.”
–
“Excuse Me, I found This White Purse
in The Cart Corral. I didn’t
look in It.”
–
“Excuse Me, I found This White Purse
in The Emergency Cart Corral. It might
have A Bomb in It.”
–
“Excuse Me. I found This White Bomb
in The Emergency Cart Corral. I didn’t
set It off.”
–
DVD — God is Trapped
We Have To Get Him Out
“Stay With Me”
Stay With God
He Is All We Have Left
He Is Falling Away
&
Needs Us
He Is Male & Female
Dark & Light
He Lives For Us
In What’s Left Of Our Mind
He Is Us
one time, only once
a long long time ago
I had a Shower of Silver Lights
like no excrement I know
It, The Shower, came
from The Bowels of Me
— or was It from My Head
as I was meant to see?
Tell Me Fly
What Do You Know —
What Did You Buzz
to Emily?
–
Do You See All
Surreptitiously?
–
What Do You Hear
When You’re On
The Wall?
–
What Make Of You
Will You Find
To Fit
My Latest
Rumination?
–
Take Your Answers
& Fly Away
To Lead Us Further
In Revelation
The Silver Oyster
within 2 brains
simultaneous
within both minds
to haunt, beguile
Our Grey Remains
I DRINK IN
MY 09:11 SCORE
I SMOOTH MY POTION
ON FACE & LEGS
I BRUSH MY TEETH
IN THE MIRROR
I DRESS FOR POWER
TO BE READ:
–
WHITE IS FOR THE LIGHT
BLACK IS FOR THE DARK
GREY IS FOR MY JESUS
RED IS ON MY MARK
one night I will be transported
in a Starship of My Brother’s design
off to a neighbouring planet
in The Companionship
of My Idol
–
there We will be deposited
for a naked length of time
to live out Our Legend
in someone else’s
garden
Joanna Gilman Hyde