HOW DO I EXIST?

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:56pm

I am The Little Girl —

stomach stuffed with Dipped Digestives

& Ginger Snaps

I am The Filthy Crow —

crazed & caged above A Cathedral-ceilinged

Living Room

I am The Entity Within —

pulsating to life

alerting My Gut, & so Me

to the impossibility

of Reconciliation