- Vol. 09
- Chapter 03
Image by Dee Mulrooney
January
Was the day she laid
in the bath and
waved a change
of the passing times
with a finger,
pointing out all the
fictions that looked
down upon her
nakedness and
drew curves in
the stoic bath water.
‘This is madness’,
she remarked and later
underlined the first
date on the new
calendar, in bold
she wrote 'need to
shave legs', in a red
marker, an ink
that leaked
through the other pages.
she was dried,
hair patted, and
soon drained
January
the water that
revealed more
subversions than ideas.
She occupied her desires
and doted that for
the new year
she would invent a
new style that wouldn’t
settle on a body of water,
stagnant, and instead
light the rooms of her
inner chambers, a fragrance.