Poets/Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan

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It seems like you could, but …

Kay Ryan

All you …

Kay Ryan

Death has a life …

Kay Ryan

There doesn’t seem …

Kay Ryan

Say when rain …

Kay Ryan

There is a …

Kay Ryan

If it please God, …

Kay Ryan

The holes have …

Kay Ryan

A blue stain …

Kay Ryan

The one sincere …

Kay Ryan

Too much rain …

Kay Ryan

Cut out …

Kay Ryan

Crow school …

Kay Ryan

Wherever the flamingo goes, …

Kay Ryan

Each escape …

Kay Ryan

Born into each seed …

Kay Ryan

There are charms …

Kay Ryan

Miser time grows …

Kay Ryan

The mind must …

Kay Ryan

Who, who had only seen wings, …

Kay Ryan

You are a …

Kay Ryan

We say …

Kay Ryan

Trying to walk …

Kay Ryan

Little has been made …

Kay Ryan

The wreck …

Kay Ryan

Like hope …

Kay Ryan

Everything contains some …

Kay Ryan

In harmony with the rule of irony— …

Kay Ryan

As if engine …

Kay Ryan

Surfaces serve …

Kay Ryan

Tenderness and rot …

Kay Ryan

It is very stretchy. …

Kay Ryan

The worms …

Kay Ryan

We knew it …

Kay Ryan

How anything …

Kay Ryan

Who would be a turtle who could help it? …

Kay Ryan

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