The Ordinary Sublime.The Ordinary Sublime Patricia Waters Anhinga Press PO Box 10595, Tallahassee, FL 32302 0938078941 $14.00 www.anhinga.com Written by teacher, journalist, and community activist Patricia Waters, The Ordinary Sublime is a collection of free-verse poetry about adjusting to tragedy, change, or the fallout of a failed marriage one day at a time--learning to appreciate each moment of daily life for itself. A moving testimony to the gradual acceptance of both the positive and negative facets of human life, society, relationships, family, and love. "Housewife": What we did was wrong. / It ended terribly, / how could it not? / There were children, houses, / whole rooms of the past / with no connecting doors. / We were night, whispers, / fugitive kisses, two beds, / yearning years, diapers, colic colic /col·ic/ (kol´ik) 1. acute paroxysmal abdominal pain. 2. pertaining to the colon. appendicular colic pain in the vermiform appendix caused by inflammation. , / the marriage a dead land / hammered by drought. / The storm when it comes / is furious. Then everyone is hungry. // I cook, clean, sew, mend, / my heart like that Christmas present / bought at the July sales, packed away / somewhere, I find by accident, / long after the holidays are over.
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