Kay Ryan

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Patience

Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable —
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.


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Kay Ryan has been appointed the new U.S. Poet Laureate


"Poems should leave you feeling freer and not more burdened, I like to think of all good poetry as providing more oxygen into the atmosphere; it just makes it easier to breathe." _____ Kay Ryan


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