{"id":12300,"date":"2026-04-25T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:15:50","slug":"another-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12300","title":{"rendered":"Another Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0477-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0477-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0477-768x901.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0477.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize now that I have been living poetry all my life. I fold clothes. In a good year I have even ironed clothes and I mend clothes. Mary Oliver lives her poems in nature. I have only recently had the time to do this. But I have for most of my life lived the poetry of repetitive tasks &#8211; domestic actions of putting my life in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where there was rarely rhyme there was always reason. It was its own form of free verse. To think that I had somehow missed the concept of freedom in the execution of household chores makes me wonder why I didn\u2019t clean the bathroom more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0253-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0253-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0253-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0253-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0253.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me not cleaning the bathroom <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll let that sink in \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize now that I have been living poetry all my life. 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