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Kay Ryan is the 2004 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her sixth book of poems is Say Uncle (Grove Press, 2000).

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Shark's Teeth
by Kay Ryan

Everything contains some
silence. Noise gets
its zest from the
small shark's-tooth
shaped fragments
of rest angled
in it. An hour
of city holds maybe
a minute of these
remnants of a time
when silence reigned,
compact and dangerous
as a shark. Sometimes
a bit of a tail
or fin can still
be sensed in parks.

 
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