Hall, Karen J.

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Exile Volume 33 Number 1 Article 4 1986 Together, Bathing Karen J. Hall Denison University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Hall, Karen J. (1986) "Together, Bathing," Exile: Vol. 33 : No. 1 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile/vol33/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Exile by an authorized editor of Denison Digital Commons. Together, Bathing I look at you now, a child but five years old, silently watching me bathe you. I think of the girl who birthed you five years ago. She wanted to keep you, wanted to bathe you as I am now, wanted to protect you, wanted to love you enough to make you love her. You watch me, wide-eyed, wash first my arm, then your arm, my breast, then your breast. We are quiet, together, and naked in the hot water. I bathe with you every night after I pick you up from the daycare center. You draw the bath, undress in the corner, and then wait for me to come and cleanse you, and do what she could not. 13 

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