- at first laundry was war to him,
- a protest enacted on the sheets,
- an argument about filth as an uncorroborated conspiracy
- determined to keep mystery in life.
- he had not been sensitized
- to the nuances of the wash
- although a full-figured slip in the wind
- was not lost on him.
- the man who finally came to earth
- fell in love with the laundry on an ordinary Monday
- after waking from a restful sleep.
- he made his usual breakfast,
- then, with a cup of coffee in his hand,
- began his routine ministrations
- until his eye was caught,
- caught and held,
- held by the quality of light
- streaming through sheer fabric
- and his life of resistance
- to reverence
- changed.