A Small Taste of Kay Ryan
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Hope
What's the use
of something
as unstable
and diffuse as hope --
the almost-twin
of making-do,
the isotope
of going on:
what isn't in
the envelope
just before
it isn't:
the always tabled
righting of the present.
-- From "Elephant Rocks"
by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
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