It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsโa chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringโwith immense, even startling power.
Raymond CarverSomethingโs died in me,โ she goes. โIt took a long time for it to do it, but itโs dead. Youโve killed something, just like youโd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
Raymond Carver