The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:34pm
I have arranged a vase
of Eliza’s dried roses
sitting below two framed portraits
of Africa
My Beginning
I began in Gabon
for My First Year
photographed in Dr Schweitzer’s Arms
I have been in The Arms
of Doctors
ever since
The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:25pm
WHO is DHW?
He Is The Inversion
Of Me
He Is More Than
My Mirror Image
He Sustains Me —
Have I Written This
Before?
Without Him I Would Have Been
Locked Up
More Than I Already Have Been
You See, I Can Relate To Him
On ANY Level
& I Relate To Him
In My Mind
Through My Mind
He Is My Mind
& I Am His
The Hawk Deck 9:38am
The World Is Waiting
The Guns Have Been Silenced
I Will Come Forward
With A Primitive Call
To Hands, Arms Extended
— The Reconstruction —
Waiting In Our Laps
Our Greatest Power
Joanna Gilman Hyde 