Kay Ryan Poems

Nothing exists as a block
and cannot be parceled up.
So if nothing's ventured
it's not just talk;
...

To the dragon
any loss is total.
...

It is at the edges
that time
thins.
...

As though
the river were
...

Patience is wider
than one once envisioned,
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The chickens are circling
and blotting out the day.
...

Say when rain
cannot make
you more wet
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Everything contains some silence.
Noise gets its zest from the small
...

Trying to walk
the same way
to the same store
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"If we have not struggled
as hard as we can
at our strongest
how will we sense
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