Today,
there are no rubber ducks
or mother's marigold skirts
to hide behind
as we once did.
In their place,
lurking dark and hoary,
a bathtub mist
updrafts thick with loose spores,
and mildew veins
sprawling
behind caulked-over creases.
The day,
shrinking away heavy with time,
as a body
sagging
into
water.
Even the washing suds have gone sour,
worn out honeysuckle soap.
Vibrant bubbles now collapsed flat against the opaque water,
lying unseparated as waves
and...
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