Today Eye have bought The Ring
to signify emergence
from the undergrowth of my marriage
striated as Eye am
wearing the literal pattern
of freedom from the forest floor
where buy eye see the clearing before me
Eye have Her
on my shoulder again, my right
at my ear
26 years later
I still hear Her melodious words:
” You Know The Meaning Of Life
And So You Are A Star”
She is warming me
in the absence of my husband
and I cannot live
without Her now —
though with Her
Eye will live forever
and ever
He had put my mother’s furniture out
around the corner of the Shakespeare House
to get whatever he could for it
and was moving in with his pregnant girlfriend
who had a crib stuck in the staircase
with me climbing up through it —
Someone had removed Self Organizing Galaxy
off the internet —
My Daughter was going away
with her hands dry and neglected
and I was unable to retrieve
the phone number
of one of my only friends
for help
Here I am with an orange flower in my hair — waiting for you in my mind and my body, which are co-joined as I am with you.
Joanna Gilman Hyde 