Today A Windy Monday

Today a windy Monday, brisk, businesslike north wind, I would make a great altar and pile it high as heaven with washing straight off the line shirts like roly-poly hunchback astronauts like human kites a sharp flapping of hemmed edges the squawk of hens surprised laundry baskets full of the smell of Spring and freshness and new beginnings laundry baskets that smell as if a walk along the shores of love all Your wind and air and water, and sunlight soap, soapy sunlight making iridescent bubbles in the washtub the squeak of the mangle, dripping into the sink stained heavenly with Dolly Blue the smell of love and motherhood the hot iron’s steamy smell the starch, the sharp warm ironed piles ready for the cupboard shelves and say, look everyone this is a woman’s lifetime of unspoken love see it made of the holy elements themselves as on the first day of Creation that is ever a woman’s life men, worship this