Tonight's Poet Corner: My Apologies

This poem was actually co-written by me and a classmate of mine as part of an exercise in our content instruction class (we're both striving to be English teachers in the SSU teaching credential program). It is based off an actual apology I've made (repeatedly) to my fiancée and written as a poetic dialogue in a William Carlos Williams style. Enjoy.

My Apologies
by Belinda Roddie
and
Krista Robertson

A:

I just wanted to say, love,

I’m sorry for

yet again

soaking the bathroom mat as I stepped out

out of the shower tonight.

Not that there’s really too much

I can do about that, considering

I can’t exactly

dry myself off

until I’m out of that

Blessed

Warm

Mist.

B:

Dear,

I look at the steam on the mirror

and the Slow

Cold

Puddle on the floor

I wonder:

Should I mop?

A:

Shit,

it got on the floor?

My bad, babe.

I’ll be more careful next time.

Perhaps

we should have a basin

I step into every night,

and we’ll collect

the drippings

for the flowers outside?