In this poem by Elisavietta Ritchie, the speaker, a woman describes her relationship with her partner through comparing it with sorting laundry and her analysis of specific pieces discuss certain aspects of it. The first stanza begins this comparison because “I think of folding you into my life,” represents how the speaker learned to share her life with her partner from that point on, mixing together, like the laundry. The mention of the bed sheets being “king sized” represents the fact that relationships are big and take two people. The deeper feelings of the relationship begin to get expressed such as how the “pillowcases, despite so many washings, seams still holding our dreams” and “well-washed dollars, intact despite agitation,” representing
