Poets/Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan

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From embarrassment, I made statements. …

Michael Ryan

My daughter made drawings with the pens you sent, …

Michael Ryan

habit smacks …

Michael Ryan

A man who’s trying to be a good man …

Michael Ryan

They’re all dressed up in carmine …

Michael Ryan

The lousy job my father lands …

Michael Ryan

When did I learn the word “I”? …

Michael Ryan

I had a tapeworm, and imagined it …

Michael Ryan

At four o’clock it’s dark. …

Michael Ryan

Reading in the paper a summary …

Michael Ryan

The ward beds float like ghost ships …

Michael Ryan

The love we’ve defined for ourselves …

Michael Ryan

What kind of delusion are you under? …

Michael Ryan

Most of the past is lost, …

Michael Ryan

In the ditch, half-ton sections of cast-iron molds …

Michael Ryan

They slept and ate like us. …

Michael Ryan

On the day a fourteen-year-old disappeared in Ojai, California, …

Michael Ryan

What a fuckup you are. …

Michael Ryan

Wanting leads to worse than oddity. …

Michael Ryan

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