Diane Setterfield

Currently reading The Thirteenth Tale..mesmerized and so fascinated that I would like to share.

The book and the author.

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Diane-Setterfield/38679211

http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/1376/diane-setterfield

skies clearing up, the sun glancing a yellow hue

Bug in the Bath

There's a bug in the bath

scuttling on the tile

away from the light and gush of water.

It meanders on the pattern

of a pink and grey flower

following an invisible thread

in a labyrinth.

The steam rises and the feet clamber

then slip, plop into the water.

There pedals like a U-boat.

I scoop it up and land it lightly

on the bath mat.

The bug climbs, frantic

over hills and dales and finds

the cool floor. It sights a haven

in the recess under the pipes,

home of the spider.

Avoiding the predator's gulp,

the bug burrows into the safe earth.

Whence it comes. Wherever it goes.

©Susan Baury Rouchard

susan.rouchard@cegetel.net