Short Toweled Poems

the fever overtook us
after our vacation week
needed a soak
soaked in each other’s skin
toweled off
grinned

11/26/2018...

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shower shoes sloshing, soapy, slippery,
and teeming with colossal cleanliness,
                                        toweled,
                                culpable
...

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chill blue skies of March —
my eyes sing “Hallelujah.”
reborn! hurray!                     toweled,
three ivy-wrapped                 skinny trees,
                               sunburst and effervescent



3/7/2020...

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I gasp

Morning is cold.
I outstretch my arm in empty reach.
I gasp.

I listen for the miracle: the shower
door closing behind him.
I gasp.
 
I wait for my toweled Rodin and
the whistling kettle.
I gasp.

I’m not sure if can get up today.
My breath returns and I robotically rise,
Gasping. 


Kathryn M. Collins©
revised Nov. 15, 2013
(would have been our 44th anniversary)...

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My pants were soaked, my coat a’drip,
My boots were saturated;
With sheets of rain that sliced the sky,
I really should have waited.

The puddles on the corners
Most resembled roiling lakes.
Though I had an umbrella,
This was one of my mistakes.

I turned around before I even
Reached my destination,
The knowledge that at least I tried
A sorry consolation.

At home I toweled off and later,
When the rain was through,
I made it to the library – 
Today my book was due!...

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