Potential Titles: Kay Ryan

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Immediate as sugar - Kay Ryan "Agreement"

Withdraw your grandeur - Kay Ryan "Blandeur"

The earmarks of the actual - Kay Ryan "Blast"

A place inside the current - Kay Ryan "Breather"

The human moment past - Kay Ryan "Bunched Clothes"

In accidental sympathy with time - Kay Ryan "Bunched Clothes"

With half its sufferance denied - Kay Ryan "Burning Tent"

Press a point in the tender arch - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

No match for ourselves - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Uncatches some remote lock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Boats of mercy embark - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

From our hearts at the oddest knock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

The poignant exactness of oranges - Kay Ryan "Death by Fruit"

Cactus adapted to thrift - Kay Ryan "Desert Reservoirs"

Sharpened by crawling over diamonds - Kay Ryan "Diamonds"

Torpedoes of disinterest - Kay Ryan "Don't Look Back"

Serves local purposes - Kay Ryan "Double Floor"

Dry things letting us drink - Kay Ryan "Dry Things"

The dangling roots of an emerald dream - Kay Ryan "Duck"

Only loss proves this - Kay Ryan "Eggs"

The shallow soil of wishes - Kay Ryan "Failure 2"

Although they harbor a needle - Kay Ryan "Fatal Flaw"

In objects or persons not us - Kay Ryan "Fizz"

Forgetting takes space - Kay Ryan "Forgetting"

Constant since the oldest maps - Kay Ryan "Gaps"

Buckle on the incline - Kay Ryan "Grazing Horses"

Like a storm of hornets - Kay Ryan "Hailstorm"

He lit a fire with icicles - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

Struck them like a steel to flint - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

To learn that ice would burn - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

In stale suspension - Kay Ryan "Homage to Joseph Brodsky"

Born into each seed - Kay Ryan "In Case of Complete Reversal"

Adapting it to the unimaginable - Kay Ryan "In Case of Complete Reversal"

As though memory were not a history - Kay Ryan "An Instrument with Keys"

Stages of darkness - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"

To match against its increments - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"

Have the night behind us - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"

All the early stations desire - Kay Ryan "Latents"

Loose approaches to tightening mazes - Kay Ryan "Latents"

Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"

Leaves a hole in the possible - Kay Ryan "The Material"

The bundles of nothing that are our gift - Kay Ryan "The Material"

Expands with its diminishing - Kay Ryan "Miser Time"

As though there were gaps in water - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

Convincing by speed alone - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

A sequence of patched fractures - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

Hardly more than imagined - Kay Ryan "The Museum of False Starts"

Visible at shifting angles - Kay Ryan "The Museum of False Starts"

The double scrape of nothing - Kay Ryan "Nothing Getting Past"

Between twin immensities of nothing - Kay Ryan "Nothing Getting Past"

The banks of space and time - Kay Ryan "Nothing Ventured"

Layers of shivers and whiskers - Kay Ryan "On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up"

Not our instrument or plan - Kay Ryan "Party Ship"

Cannot abandon waiting - Kay Ryan "The Pieces That Fell To Earth"

The commanding way they matter - Kay Ryan "The Pieces That Fell To Earth"

For some fraction of the self - Kay Ryan "Playacting"

Accruing in a strange account - Kay Ryan "Playacting"

As though ghost ribs had been added - Kay Ryan "Post-Construction"

With spaces left besides - Kay Ryan "Putting Things in Proportion"

Every eddying vacancy of Earth - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"

The oiled motions of avoidance - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"

Disassemble the unthinkable to the unthought - Kay Ryan "Salvage"

Another irrecoverable day - Kay Ryan "Say Uncle"

Fragments of rest angled in - Kay Ryan "Sharks' Teeth"

The ultimate articulations of despair - Kay Ryan "Shipwreck"

Rinsed of impurities - Kay Ryan "Star Block"

Soluble in starlight - Kay Ryan "Star Block"

Absence of insistence - Kay Ryan "Star Block"

Go with chambers broken open - Kay Ryan "Still Start"

Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"

Thieves in the mind - Kay Ryan "Thieves"

Only birds might confidently walk upon - Kay Ryan "Thin"

This apparently tenacious earth - Kay Ryan "Things That Have Stayed in Position"

Accessible only intermittently - Kay Ryan "Those Places"

Offered more than enough - Kay Ryan "Ticket"

Hanging in the air unclaimed - Kay Ryan "Tracers"

And a bridge had just fallen - Kay Ryan "Tripped"

That powers the lamps of dreams - Kay Ryan "Tune"

Feeling the menace settle - Kay Ryan "Venice"

Eased by restraint - Kay Ryan "Venice"

The assault of abundance - Kay Ryan "Venice"

Exempt from resurrection - Kay Ryan "Waste"

Leaning into hunger and hard luck - Kay Ryan "Waste"

Enjoy an accumulating faith - Kay Ryan "Weak Forces"

Of resolve sustained too long - Kay Ryan "Weak Forces"

Settles on everything stopped - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

To work inside hearts - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

The endless work of overcoming - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

Obscures a deeper curse - Kay Ryan "Winter Fear"


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