My friend Michele Madigan Somerville has an epic poem on her poetry blog about reading an epic poem in the bathtub. It’s from her new (as yet unpublished) collection called Glamorous Life.

Le Bagineuse

Observe the baigneuse, nacreous as she steeps, sur-
rounded by heat on all sides
on a cold day as iridescent mean

curvature and prismatic spheres
which an equilibrium between outward air
pressure and inward surface tension form

wherein molecules tend to line up
with one end pointing inward
and the other out to render the liquid surface

more stable. Diffraction in soap film
causes light to be seen
and bubbles are possible.

An ingenious gleaming contraption
of horizontal chrome fit with nifty tips of
rubber transects pre-war porcelain

as a means for making viable the privilege
perusal is. The collapsible scaffolding stabilizes and
grips a a soap-white pair of symmetrical

swells, offers an adequate frame for keeping
the future artifact dry and free
of moisture and lavender surfactant…

Read more at Michele Madigan Sommerville.