#poetry
#kayryan

a brown tabby cat sleeps on a cozy chair, on the back of which are pearched 2 pigeons. in front of the cat is a book of poetry by kay ryan called "the best of it".

the best of it indeed.

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#caturday #catbirdday #kayryan #poetry

"Slant", Kay Ryan
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two pigeons standing on the back of a cozy chair in which a brown tabby cat is sleeping. propped up in front of the cat is a copy of the poetry book "the best of it" by kay ryan.

today i finished The Best of It by Kay Ryan for the #sealeychallenge . @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social #poetry #kayryan #pigeonsky #catsky 🪶

"Tenderness and Rot", "In Case of Complete Reversal", Kay Ryan
"First Fig", Edna St Vincent Millay
Kitty Inkpot-A Certain Forest
Midori MD (grid), CRENA spark (white)
BlueDew <Wet Noodle>

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"The pink daisy’s
seed-head is a locked
treasure chest—
only the wind
knows the combination
to its golden spiral." Kay Ryan (2005)
#photography #daisy #PinkDaisy #tricolor #flower #spiral #fibonacci #mathematics #beauty #symmetry #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #poetry #KayRyan

"The water bead
pretends it’s the leaf’s
idea—
a perfect
round thought
the plant
never had." Kay Ryan (2005)
#photography #bead #water #leaf #drop #water #lupine #palmate #plant #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #poetry #KayRyan

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Two Years and Two Months is a contemplation of the complex and many stranded love the author shares with her mother.#poetry #motherlove #love #pandemic #kayryan #milton

‘I don’t have to think my #books are getting better.

I just want to keep going back to the same well to have another little drink.’

#KayRyan

"A certain kind of perhaps rather unwholesome-looking distortion or lopsidedness is necessary to the writer’s mind, but I never wanted to add to the grief of being human, the burden of it, or have my work do that."

#KayRyan

#booksky

"Be dull and ordinary in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work."

#Flaubert

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“I think extravagance in your life takes energy from the possible extravagances of your mind.”

#KayRyan

#poetry #KayRyan Lighthouse Keeping

It’s uncanny how often I see my own thought patterns and select writing obsessions in Ryan’s work. Apparently I should have picked her up long ago.

voetica.com/poem/8094

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So far this is the only #KayRyan poem I’ve looked up where she’d made book edits to the original journal publication—wise ones, I’d add, as the allusion to the Genesis account has become uncluttered and more compelling. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#KayRyan #poetry

She’s the best kind of clever.