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My Ordinary Love by Paula Bonnell

My Ordinary Love
Paula Bonnell

I want you to know
what a simple thing it is,
what a plain, what a humdrum.
I want you to know
what a grey thing it is,
what a gritty, what a numb.
It is a golden thing, it is
a loud, it is a fabulous flower—
Oh it is a solid thing,
a red thing, a steady;
it is a quiet thing,
a dense thing, a ruddy.

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This poem appeared in Rattle Poetry, 2025.

ABOUT PAULA BONNELL

Paula Bonnell began writing poems at 15, and continued while a college student, during her first career in financial services, then law school, and her 35 years practicing law in Boston. When her manuscript of Airs & Voices was selected by Mark Jarman for a Ciardi Prize (BkMk Press 2008), she discontinued the practice of law. Her poems have appeared in APRThe Hudson ReviewRattleThe Women’s Review of Books, and dozens more; and in Message, her first collection; and… (more)

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