Among The Ordinary

AMONG THE ORDINARY

a Fall day like many others,
new school year underway;
children at the table adding,
subtracting, reading, writing

she was not unusual
among housewives, spurning
the accumulated months
of clutter in closets and drawers

stretching up on the balls of feet,
reaching this way and that,
ignorant of the message
in the sting of sore muscles

beneath the rind of stubborn flesh,
unseen growth toward eternity

2012-07-08
P. Wanken

Inspired by The Sunday Whirl wordle #64: ignorant, spurn, eternity, drawers, balls, year, rind, sting, months, housewives, subtracting, and fall.