Question 7: How does poetry make the ordinary seem extraordinary? Desire to do so, must be first. Not everyone thinks of turning the cutlery drawer into Spoonville. Then everyone outdoes everyone else. Your value of the seeming ordinary pushes limits. Not just the how but the why of everything nameable. Devices you discover along the way make for the [extraordinary]. Analogy transfigures. Words themselves lift the ordinary into something new. Only 26 letters, too. Sharing is a main motive. It’s fine to like daffodils, or grevilleas, but the next step is showing others their explosions amidst our glorious fleshly world.
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