Bathtub Poetry

Slow Baths

Ice Cream, Oceans, and Rainbows

Taking a bath—fast

Must be like

  Eating chocolate ice cream

    without tasting it

  Going to the beach

    and turning your back to the ocean

  Hearing someone say, “A rainbow!”

    and looking at the ground.

I took a long, hot bath

  with lavender-scented bubbles and Dead Sea salts.

I propped my feet at the tub’s end and

  sank deep within the warmth.

I considered chocolate ice cream, blue ocean water,

  and rainbows.

I relaxed until my arms floated

  to the bubble-covered surface.

I took a bath—slow.

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April is National Poetry Month.