Tuesday Poem

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 6:16AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Jim Culleny

Thin

How anything

is known

is so thin—

a skin of ice

over a pond

only birds might

confidently walk

upon. A bird's

worth of weight

or one bird-weight

of Wordsworth.

by Kay Ryan
From Poetry, April 2005