WEN: 8D78D7
Exhibitor Name: Evie Groch
Division: Poetry (Adults)
Class: 01 Poetry
The Significance of the Everyday We spend our lives as we spend our days with ordinary actions when we empty the trash, vacuum the floors, do the laundry.
The unremarkable events we witness in a broken window, a shuttered theater, the newspaper delivered at dawn, the abandoned gas station where we once fueled up, the long lines of Millennials at the Cheeseboard on Shattuck, the strangers we open up to on BART. The trivial thoughts we admit to when we look in the mirror hoping to see a younger version of ourselves, the pizza we order with extra cheese because we won’t accept our lactose intolerance, knowing we must stand behind someone in a group photo to hide our girth, and now paying for the hair color we once naturally had. These occasions don’t merit the photographers we hire for weddings, graduation parties, bar mitzvahs, turning point birthday parties, banquets, and christenings.
Yet as years pass, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the unremarkable, truly remarkable. Mundane moments shine in the rear view mirror to remind us they were the connective tissue for anything meaningful, potent, and vibrant. The ugly, boring ducklings swam the lake preparing it for the arrival of the swans. The paparazzi ignored the ducklings, and in doing so, never peeled back the overlooked layers of stories only they could tell.
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