Thin Poem by Kay Ryan

Thin



How anything
is known
is so thin—
a skin of ice
over a pond
only birds might
confidently walk
upon. A bird's
worth of weight
or one bird-weight
of Wordsworth.

Kay Ryan
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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San Jose, California
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