the laundry's in
tumbling toward a fresh future
I'm making the bed
our bed
I wish you were on the other side
looking up at me now, laughing; mineral blue eyes
both sides, bedmaking ping-pong
back
and forth and
back
it was a lovers' game
you made it sharper straighter
we made this tired bed together
with principle and purpose
across the usual mattress frontier
with all due awe & conventional bodily functions