Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: women’s rights

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 5:05pm

I am living every woman’s dream

with 2 handsome husbands

& a lover in the wings —

I can make bread pudding

to save the birds from My Cooking

I can sit in My Grandmother’s Wrought Iron Chair

to look at The Sea,

My Pristine Blue Horizon

& remember what She said when I was a child:

“Someday Joge, You are going to make some man

very happy”

UNTIL NOW

Tusket, NS 1:35pm

Women have been housed

in harems

insane asylums

in societies

They have been burned

drowned, beheaded

allowed to be disowned

by Their own families

& stoned

to death

I CAN WRITE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:17pm

I can write whatever I want

a privilege not held in all countries

there, where Women are struggling

while I sit in My Sea-side Outpost

wanting to give, will, Them The Power

I have

to fight the wars Their Men

have made

to fight the hunger of Their

babes

what can I do

but write

My Freedom

& hope It spreads?

HOT FLASH

The Hawk West Desk Window 10:25am

I have turned toward The East

with The Sun Behind

and The Moon Ahead

toward The Women Who Wear

Gold On Their Wrists

Silver In Their Hair

In Societies Where They Are Allowed

to put Personal Wealth

on display

in order to Hold It

THE SOBEY’S PARKING LOT 5:15pm

I Was First In Line

For My Abortion

& I Claimed It:

Him/Her I Kept

Forever In My Shattered Heart

In The Next Room Over

From That Waiting Room

Full

Of Silent Women