Big Bathroom Scale

by Eileen Murphy

Her eyes

spy me in the morning,

before I've had my coffee,

when I get naked,

no jewelry, no nothing,

not even a bobby pin.

I step up onto her,

and she bears my weight

like the shell-back

of the Great World-Turtle.

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"Big Bathroom Scale" was first published in Obsession Literary Magazine (2013).

A former Chicagolander, Eileen Murphy now lives 30 miles from Tampa. She received her Masters degree from Columbia College, Chicago. She teaches literature and English at Polk State College in Lakeland and has recently published poetry in Thirteen Myna Birds, Tinderbox (nominated for Pushcart Prize), Yes Poetry, The American Journal of Poetry, Rogue Agent, Deaf Poets Society, and other journals.