Love in a Bathtub

Love in a Bathtub

Years later we’ll remember the bathtub,
the position
.............of the taps
the water, slippery
as if a bucketful
............of eels had joined us …
we’ll be old, our children grown up
but we’ll remember the water
...................sloshing out
the useless soap,
the mountain of wet towels.
‘Remember the bathtub in Belfast?’
we’ll prod each other –

Sujata Bhatt