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Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate.

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Sock

Kay Ryan
Sep 17 2015
Imagine an inversion as simple as socks: putting your hand into the toe of yourself and pulling. Now when you talk you are relieved to find your tongue is inside ...

Fatal Flaw

Kay Ryan
Sep 17 2015
The fatal flaw works through the body like a needle, just a stitch now and then, again and again missing the heart. Most people never bend in the fatal way at the ...

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