Laid flat in the dishwasher today
let the soap get in my eyes
broke all the plates beneath the pleats of my stomach
Then I wept for six or seven hours
and threw away all my blinds
so that my body can get used to being seen
and my arms will stop harboring my skin
in their ashamed embrace
when my girlfriend wants to take a bath
without a layer of foam suds hiding our nakedness
the water
being the only thing we touch
with any sort of sexual implication
Lauren Miller is a twenty-something poet who has non-ironically watched too much reality television and published a chapbook of queer poetry with Bottlecap Press in 2021. She has just completed her first full-length collection, and when she is not querying publishers, she is working on a feminist speculative fiction novel.