Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:15pm

That Shower Of Silver Lights

My Shower

cleansed Me not of sin

but of all Darkness

ensuing from that stultifying depression

which was Its inevitable outcome —

I see Its Silver still

on The Ocean

I see It in My Daily Shower

I carry Its Light

free of burden

and transpose It

into

My Own Personal

Effulgence