"Folding clothes,
I think of folding you
into my life."
This poem is a metaphor that compares folding laundry to the speaker's life with her lover. The poem has little anecdotes, such as the towels described in lines 10-15, that create an image of their life together. The reference to the "creatures in the ark" shows that the couple was chosen to be together, like the animals paired together to live through the flood, which is described as the "foam" of the washing machine. The speaker finds "In pockets, surprises;" when she does laundry. In much the same way, the he sees surprises in their relationship; they are always discovering something new about each other or about love. The last three stanzas describe how she would be if her lover left her. She wouldn't be able to find someone else to replace her, as described when she says "a mountain of unsorted wash/ could not fill/ the empty side of the bed." Who knew laundry could be so romantic?
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