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things shouldn’t be so hard by Kay Ryan
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things shouldn’t be so hard by Kay Ryan
Spiderweb
by Kay Ryan
From other angles the fibers look fragile, but not from the spider’s, always hauling coarse ropes, hitching lines to the best posts possible. It’s heavy work everyplace, fighting sag, winching up give. It isn’t ever delicate to live.
fr. “A Certain Kind of Eden” by Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan, Flamingo Watching (Copper Beech Press, 1994)
ATLAS by Kay Ryan
[Writing is] a way of thinking unlike any other. Brodsky considers poetry a great accelerator of the mind and I agree. Thinking takes place in language, and it’s hard to say whether the language is creating the thinking or the thinking is creating the language. If I don’t write poetry, in the profoundest way I have no way to think.
Kay Ryan, The Art of Poetry No. 94, Interviewed by Sarah Fay, Issue 187, Winter 2008