an intersection of lunatics

My wife changes
linens as lunatics do:
four sets, towels,
sheets, rotated through
twenty-eight days.
White as reliably
follows Black as
Waxing follows
Waning.

Occasionally I've
challenged the Tide
by suggesting, "why
don't you wash Thursday
instead of Friday?
We're vacationing
soon. Best to look
forward, balance it."

I've no idea how
my Tides of Time
intersect hers. It
makes things
interesting.

22/100

The oyster

A meditation on what makes a couple

Oyster
sits and spits.
Mollusk-as-grass,
rooted, muted,
colored in
good enough,
in sedentary.

Snail
glides by:
mollusk-movement.
Purposefulness
imbues her,
stubbornness, her
going-ness.

Can these opposites
attract? Or,...

What if Crab
tiptoes past
them both?
What then?
Who pines for
legs? Who clings
stubbornly to
Life As It Is?

12/100