Wednesday, May 1, 2013

1950

artwork: ralph murre


1950
by Bruce Dethlefsen

at night
my mother bathed me in a white tub
scrubbed me with white soap
rubbed me in a white towel
hugged and plugged me
into pajamas and the white sheets

an act so kind
so common
it barely happened


~ first published in Hodge Podge Poetry