The Smell of Ironing Being Done: Finding Poetry in an Everyday Chore
Recently, I came across Dorothy Aldis's delightful poem "Ironing." That, perhaps, is the finest achievement of a poet—to make us notice what has always been before our eyes.
Who would have imagined that the smell of ironing could become poetry?
A blogpost on this.
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