Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:18pm

In My First Year

She took Me to Africa to meet Dr Schweitzer

for Him to hold Me

forever in a black and white photograph

hanging here in My Dining Room —

how could He have known

I would have The Shower Of Silver

Blades Of Light

which would turn Me

into What I am

Today:

A Woman Who Wishes

Only The Best

For This New World?