Joanna Gilman Hyde

My Husband/Doctor tells Me

The Sound of The Waves

works on The Pleasure Centres

of My Brain

like a narcotic, like opium

or nicotine or cocaine

& I say The Sound relaxes & invigorates–

I am addicted to The Surf–

It crept up on Me

over the course of these two years

& I never knew I could be so healthy