Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

AFTERNOON SHAFT

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:35pm

After making love with My Husband

After making a macaroni casserole

I sit in A Shaft Of Light

on The Tomato-coloured Couch

I flip through a Gucci catalogue

& listen to 90’s on 9

abandoning DHW

at least for now

He gave Me That Number

10:22

October 22, 1993

I have built a construct of living

around That Number, That Date

A Housefly flies into The Shaft

glinting like A Firefly

ELIXIR OF LIFE

The Hawk West Desk Window 11:30am

Every Morning I Am

A Woman Of Ritual

I Wake To Open The Blinds

Re-fill The Kitties’ Water Dish

And Drink From My Fridge Spigot

The First Of Many Glasses

Marked “LIFE”

I Log My Self Organizing Galaxy Views

At 9:11

Or 10:22

I Row For 22 Minutes And 22 Seconds

On My C2 Indoor Rowing Machine

And Then I Take

**My Shower**

The Literal Transformation

Of My Shower Of Silver Lights