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Friday, January 10, 2014

Poem-A-Day: Token Loss by Kay Ryan

Guest Editor: Jane Hirshfield, Academy of American Poets Chancellor, January 10, 2014

Token Loss

by Kay Ryan

 

 

To the dragon

any loss is

total. His rest

is disrupted

if a single

jewel encrusted

goblet has

been stolen.

The circle

of himself

in the nest

of his gold

has been

broken.  No

loss is token.

 

 

 

  

Copyright © 2014 by Kay Ryan. Used with permission of the author.

About This Poem
"Ideally, this little poem would be printed as a circle and wouldn't start or end but rather would round upon itself like the seamless repose of the dragon.  


But, on second thought, since it's describing the disruption of the dragon's perfect circuit, I guess it makes sense that it's all chopped up."

--Kay Ryan
Most Recent Book by Ryan




(Grove Press, 2010) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kay Ryan's most recent book of poems is The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2010), which received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She is a former two-term Poet Laureate of the United States, Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets, and a MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Marin County, California.

 

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