John Samuel Tieman: Analyst

first thing this morning
the kitchen table
her short black hair
mostly combed
her Sunday Times open
to something she sets aside

she makes notes
about desire and the revival
of a Chekhov play
she redefines desire
makes it her own
quotes Freud then considers
Lacan and underlines again
a line she already underlined

thus begins the article
she will write
and rewrite until it leaves
her the way the words
and lines leave her
first thing this morning