Steel Tumblers
"Worthy only for drinking basic water, but without which may lead to struggling at the life-death brink."
The Ordinary Archive
Poems of the overlooked and the everyday
[Intro prose to be written by the poet. This is a placeholder — edit this section in your own words.]
These poems began with objects. Not grand ones. The kind that line our shelves and sit in our drawers and never make anyone’s list of important things. A steel tumbler no one reaches for at parties. A tangle of wires that connects the world and is never thanked for it. A knife that knows nothing of its user.
The ordinary archive is not about overlooking the extraordinary. It is about looking at the ordinary long enough that it starts to give something back.
Everything unremarkable has earned its place.
Wires
"Rudimentary and often neglected, yet so prime akin to unstoppable time — connects the world like experiences that connect lives."
Knives
"Life too is an abstract invisible knife that helps when used correctly and destructs when used imprudently."
To the Public
"A doctor is very eccentric for he is both a God and a devil in the eyes of the public."