What's love got to do with it

a musical muse
What’s love got to do with it?
Tina Turner


It’s physiological
an evolutionary impulse
phernomes and visual stimulation
conspire to generate obsession
the faint scent of ovulation broad hips
a sign of fertility
full breasts
for nursing infants
vibrant health flush in your cheeks
delightfully accenting pale blue eyes
like robin’s eggs

Blond hair cut in a page boy
it’s been years since I’ve seen a page boy
look so attractive on a woman
an effervescent laugh makes my breath
ripple in waves leaving me alive
to wind and rain and sun
optimism forces faith in the future
I can accomplish the most obscure dream
when you hold my hand and listen to a fool’s errand.

When you step out of the shower in the evening
and sit near me on the couch
in a loosely tied terry cloth robe
your hair damp
your skin washed clean
the faint scent of the lotion you have used for years
recalling memories
it’s physiological
phernomes and visual stimulation
broad hips full breasts vibrant health
and robin’s eggs
an evolutionary impulse