Housework
a poem by Linda Carpenter  

I can't get the thought of you
out of my crotch
at silly times of the day
she moves
down there
some kind of earthquake
small enough 
but noted
on the Richter scale
 waking sleepers
jiggling china
 
at silly times
vacuuming or doing dishes
I think of soap
and suddenly you're that
clean pair of underwear
rubbing
even the bird notes something
wolf whistling at me
between sunflower seeds