How Goes the Battle?
Shift
2013
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Each piece in this series is based on a poem by Kay Ryan.
Shift
by Kay Ryan
Words have loyalties
to so much
we don't control.
Each word we write
rights itself
according to poles
we cant see; think of
magnetic compulsion
or an equal stringency.
It's hard for us
to imagine how small
a part we play in
holding up the tall
spires we believe
our minds erect.
Then north shifts,
buildings shear,
and we suspect.