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Michael Ryan is the author of several books of prose and poetry, including the 2005 Kingsley Tufts Award-winning New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and God Hunger (Puffin, 1990), recipient of the Lenore Marshall Prize. Email a friend >> Printable version >> |
Against Which
habit smacks
its dull skull
like a stuck bull
in a brick stall
and my version
of what I know
is like eye surgery
with a backhoe
on grace
so much beyond
my pitiful gray
sponge of a brain
I'd not believe it exists
except for such
doses of felicity
as this. |
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