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"…And now my poems are filled 

with people and animals and the magic 

I see in the real world around me. (…) 

Amazing things are all around me, 

appearing ordinary at first, 

until I really look at them closely.

"As I write about them, 

the real things become very new, 

more vivid and full of color.  

That's exciting to me, 

and I look at my own world 

through a new window, 

my poem, 

and see the marvels all around." 

~ Joanne Ryder, 

in The Place My Words are Looking For

The ordinary things around me always become extraordinary whenever I take the time to stop and really look at them, and then again when I try to write about what I've seen.  I love Ryder's idea of a poem being a new window through which I can view the world....