Letter to a Poet
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Letter to a Poet

An acrostic with Robert Hass’ Letter to a Poet
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Ryan NanceFeb 4, 2015
Notes Toward Identifying a Father

Notes Toward Identifying a Father

People call them elephants. People often dream about them when the dreamers want clarity. They live out of doors. They live in big places…
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Ryan NanceOct 13, 2015
Photoshop Bestiary

Photoshop Bestiary

It isn’t for us to say the line of sacred and ordinary. These two creatures breathe through each others’ phantom lungs. Each aspired to…
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Ryan NanceOct 23, 2015
The Larcenist’s Son

The Larcenist’s Son

Let me tell you how things are with me. When I went to San Francisco to get
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Ryan NanceDec 24, 2015
The Transience of New Leaves is Not as Noticeable as Plum Blossoms

The Transience of New Leaves is Not as Noticeable as Plum Blossoms

The Skins
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Ryan NanceMar 6
Read My Poem — We Burn

Read My Poem — We Burn

“Poems lie there, inert, until a reader breathes life into them. Hear different voices read ‘We Burn’”. Tweet this
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Ryan NanceSep 6, 2015
The Lost Wax Method

The Lost Wax Method

Nine lotus plants dwell in the green water of this squat ceramic pot. Nearly leaning into it, are there no carp?
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Ryan NanceNov 10, 2015
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What can I say for the hills except they were nearly green, scrub brush brown. The sun in that clear, pre-adamic sky was high, glinted off…
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Ryan NanceOct 11, 2015
Saying It

Saying It

Leaves flap through the dark windows like stiff-veined flags. Wind stirs much of the street. An uncut lime
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Ryan NanceOct 12, 2015
Yellow

Yellow

Poem on cognates of ‘yellow’
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Ryan NanceFeb 4, 2015
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