Authors Bath

Let me

bathe in

the written

word.

Spines

stacked

on wood

looks over

spines

in water.

Porcelain 

with four

feet lets

two feet

soak

in 

the 

gypsophila

bath of 

salt

and loss. 

Letting 

the candlelight

produce a 

seance of 

words.

I let the heat

rise from

the hot

water

and conjure

these

authors 

into a cotton

blanket

to save 

my broken 

soul.