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Kay Ryan, U.S Poet Laureate, at City Arts & Lectures Tonight
Were you aware that we have a Poet Laureate? Well, we do, and even though poetry doesn't sell so well these days, it's still out there and can provide a calming break from watching 30 Rock and reading blogs. Kay Ryan, our current Poet Laureate, is a writer of condensed, brief poems that take on big ideas, in a style not unlike Emily Dickinson. Buy tickets here to see her tonight at the Herbst, and/or read one of her poems after the jump.
Patience
by Kay Ryan
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.