Revelations in a Bathtub

by Katie Bowers

Other women have stood

naked before you – proud

of what they believed

they had to offer

like a tree during a bitter winter, bare

of all leaves – naked,

unashamed.

But I am.

I am ashamed.

And I can always hear my

heart’s beat best underwater.

Katie Ellen Bowers was raised in Charleston, SC, but is now sowing seeds with her husband and daughter in the small, rural town of Heath Springs, SC.