Watching kites in the sky. Bounding on a bed. A boy goes fishing. Washing clothes. A housemaid makes beds at a motel. Mowing a lawn. Adopting kittens. Veterans march in a Memorial Day parade.
Common, familiar activities and events. These are the kinds of things we do in our lives and work that become part of the background of daily life. We take them for granted. We smile at the memory. But politics and foreign policy and newspaper headlines and online viral sensations soon crowd them out. We pay more attention to our smart phones than to the real life happening around us. If we happen to look up and notice, we immediately start to think about new content for Instagram or TikTok.
In a very quiet and gentle way, poet Marjorie Maddox says look around. Her latest collection, Hover Here: Poems, should probably bear that as a subtitle. She doesn’t speak with loud or demanding images and words. That’s not her style, not to mention that loud and demanding soon crowds out understanding and reflection.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Uninhabited – poem by Emily Patterson at Every Day Poems.
“Dear March – Come in,” poem by Emily Dickinson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Three Lenten Sonnets – Andrew Peterson at The Rabbit Room.
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