Ordinary fruit in an ordinary bowl on a regular table
requires little thought
as you grab a shiny one and head out the door.
Ordinary fruit on a well used checkered table cloth
Is hardly noticed
As the front door swings wide, to allow for
school books and backpacks to be exchanged for an apple and an ordinary glass of milk
Ordinary fruit in an ordinary bowl on a regular table
Is moved
To the counter to make way for an ordinary dinner
and mismatched Tupperware glasses.
Ordinary dishes
are removed.
The floor is swept with an ordinary broom.
The well-used table is wiped and the counters are shining.
Ordinarily the hum of a dishwasher
replaces
the clinks of plates, silverware,and usual conversation at the regular table.
Ordinary people
scatter like a dandelion seeds in the breeze.
Ordinary fruit in a ordinary bowl
is returned
to its ordinary place on the regular table,
over the well used checkered tablecloth.
Ordinary fruit is the ordinary signal
for all the world to see
ordinary lives, ordinary eating, ordinary cleaning, ordinary living,
ordinary learning, ordinary growing.
--- Extraordinary ---.
© 2003 Miss K - 12/30/10
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