Twenty-Four Hours, Quietly

GiaB prompt #15 illumination

I once kept wrapped, from dawn through dark, my face in strips of Clorox.

I didn’t cover myself in oiled muslin, to even my tone, to drown my spots,

Until the sun snuck beneath My bedroom door, and waited there - Like a tube of cheap, Fluorescent kitchen light.

~ Poem written by Chloe Paulina Hawes

Thank you to the awesome editorial team at Genius in a Bottle, and to the several other encouraging writers at Genius in a Bottle. I submitted this poem in response to GiaB’s prompt #15, themed “illumination”. Writers everywhere are welcome to submit a piece of work on the properties of light. A much better explanation is provided in the link below, so please check it out and give it a try! I invite America Zed, John Gruber, Julia E Hubbel, Yvonne Vávra, Dana Sanford, K. Barrett, Olivia Th, Kristie Darling, and The Dozen to challenge themselves and submit a piece of their brilliant work in response to this prompt.