Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk West Desk Window 8:05pm

There’s A Letter In My Purse

dated June 12, 2012

enveloped, stamped & marked “Personal/Confidential”

to The Doctor I’ve been after

for twenty years

Now I’m after any surviving copies

of My 364 Page Manuscript

about My Mother’s Illness & Death

& resulting effects upon Me —

two years ago

in a fit of gleeful unburdening

I shredded My Five Copies but

that was only temporary relief

as The Letter In My Purse says

I regret My Action

The Main Protagonist — The Doctor —

got His Copy plunked down on His Desk

& supposedly carried It into “the coffee room”

but I’ve heard no more of It since

& that was over fifteen years ago