The part of the poem that felt both most magical and most human was when "the test" begun and "I" said a series of images from being alive. This string of images felt magical because they were all ordinary things it is possible to experience on any given Thursday. We would probably rush past them if any happened in a busy day, but there is a beauty in them. Those moments that don't feel like the "most important thing" when we are "living life" are just as much what life is.
The broken piece of a key left in the lock.
The forgotten bicycle.
One who laughs in her sleep.
To cut one's nails too short.
All of these things would be either annoying or ignoreable, but when I thought about each of them they felt like the wholeness of a life.
Arguments that can only be solved by dancing.
The jokes heard in sleep.
None of these words are foreign or distant, but put together they give an amazing vignette of a life. Those Ordinary Thursday Words are magical.
--Hannah
Hi Hannah,
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed serendipity of her writing and she shifting tones throughout the poem. She goes from beautifully relatable imagery that invokes empathy, uncomfortable experiences, laundry list of thoughts, unpleasant imagery, to humorous imagery to gain the pathos of the reader. The poem in the parenthesis are meant to bring us to those moments and reflect on them, since they are not moments we particularly reflect on a daily basis. I believe that is the magic in her poetry.