Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:13pm

On My only trip to The Poconos

I accompanied A Non-descript Man

to some friends of His —

A Husband and His Pregnant Wife —

I went swimming off a dock

in My royal blue bathing suit

& drove back to New York City

in the night with The Wife

and My Date in the back

and Me

in the front passenger seat

My Knee surreptitiously laid

against the gear shift

against The Husband’s fist

and sometimes open hand