Joanna Gilman Hyde

October 11, 2013 The Hawk Queen Bed 10:50pm

I took off My Purple Sweater

& laid It in the laundry basket

nestled around My Big Black Cat Astro

I saw The Colour Purple

next to My Cat’s Blackness

& saw My Giant Satin Lips again

that Monument To Sex I sewed & stuffed

for a Cooper Union sculpture class —

body-length zippered pillows I presented

dressed in Black, I kicked off My High heels

butted out a cigarette

unzipped My Fierce Creation

& climbed in

sunk unseen down inside The Fuchsia Lips

zipped back up