53. Male Bonding “Seems to Notice Now” Endless Now [Sub Pop]
“Even though I have seen it all, it’s not all seen through you.”
Her fingers were prunes. It had only been twenty minutes. Or at least it had only felt like twenty minutes. Could have been longer. Whatever. The wrinkles were not what she came into the bath to look at so she dunked them back in. She futzed with the silver knob via her left foot to let a little more hot water into the mix. She held her toes on the handle, waiting until she felt a trickle of warm snake up her calves, and then tried to bring it back down with as much cool grace as she had turned it on. She failed. The faucet just poured on even more as she slipped past the controls and up the tile, feeling her face fall underneath the surface and her hands jump out to grip the sides of the tub. Her reflexes didn’t allow for her eyes to close in time for her trip scuba diving in the basement bathroom either, so not only was she now discombobulated but she also had to deal with soap stinging her pupils. Before she got a hold of herself, however, she caught a glimpse of a world underneath the bubbles. It only existed for a millisecond, but it was there. A domestic Atlantis that was likely the work of her imagination, she thought at first. It felt too real to be a fluke hallucination, though. As she dried her face with a hanging towel nearby after the incident she wondered how she could possibly describe it - not that she ever would. The only words that came to her were “far away” and “all that’s left.” It was the first bath she had taken since she was a little girl.
