Category Archives: Kay Ryan
Independence
On the morning of the Fourth of July, I purchased a small packet of “colorful smoke bombs” at Target. Since the city of Chicago does not allow its citizens to purchase real fireworks–a memo which, based on the yearly volume of … Continue reading
Filed under I Do Not Know, Kay Ryan, Poetry, W.S Merwin
All In All
I was home for Easter last week; I’ve got a valid excuse for not writing. Celebrating the Risen Lord can certainly take the stuffing out of you. Instead of attending Mass on Easter morning, my family and I went to the Easter Vigil … Continue reading
Filed under Kay Ryan, Math and Science: General, My Parents, My Roommate, Poetry, Stirring World Events
“And you were? Where were you this hour o’ need?”
One night early last week, I walked past my kitchen window. “Huh! What was that searing flash of white light in the sky?” I thought, and turned around to go back and look. Lo and behold–or “Aye and begorrah”–it was THE … Continue reading
Filed under Annie Dillard, Brian Henry, Kay Ryan, Poetry
