Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:38pm

The Sun-slash across

My Couch is calling Me

to sit in Its Tomato-coloured Shaft

to contemplate My Premises

— My Place In This House —

as The Slant moves along

below a sky light

in the cathedral ceiling

momentarily illuminating My Book

infusing The Book Mark Sash

with a glitter of brighter crimson:

I Am Internal To This Domain