Mundanity

I want to tell you about

the singular world I live in

(well, all our worlds are singular—

yours, mine, his, hers)—

but I can't always do it.

There's many a memory slip twixt

what I experience—

deeply, sometimes, and joyfully—

and the nib of my pen hitting paper.

 

I am indeed reduced, at such times,

to living in the present,

for the deep and exhilarating experience

becomes, in a flash,

as irretrievable as any dream.

It's no longer available, that astounding moment.

 

But I can tell you about

the very small, mundane moments of my life.

I pretend to present them as pejorative,

petty,

less than.

But the mundane is all I can offer:

the wonderful brightness

of my mundane existence.

 

 

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