{"id":1265,"date":"2011-03-21T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:17:02","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/21\/lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My book group met last week.\u00a0 Usually we read novels and sometimes nonfiction and very occasionally poetry.\u00a0 This was one of those rare times of poetry.\u00a0 We chose to read from Kay Ryan\u2019s book of poems The Niagara River. <\/em> Ryan was our 16th<\/sup> Poet Laureate of the United States.\u00a0 Her poems are tidy and crisp, well crafted.\u00a0 No extraneous words, they are like a well-weeded garden, nothing scraggly or unintended left behind.\u00a0 Each poem is packed with meaning, word play and wit.\u00a0 It was lovely to spend an evening with friends picking through her poems and unpacking them, with the strength of four minds we could unearth more meaning and harvest more insights than I alone could conjure.<\/p>\n

I was particularly drawn to the poem Things Shouldn\u2019t Be So Hard, <\/em>which I include here.\u00a0 It made me think at once on my grandma who lived most of the year with my family from the time I was six until she died just shy of one hundred, long past my leaving home.\u00a0 I have a number of her things, a solid rocker which makes a creak when rocking that brings me instantly to sitting on her lap listening to her quiet voice tirelessly reading one more story.\u00a0 I have a blanket that she sewed from wool scraps, that is tattered and tired but remains on my bed despite the fact that only I can see the beauty in it.\u00a0 The poem also prompted me to pull out a box of old photographs I have stored in my studio.\u00a0 Some of the photos are of people I know and some of the photos are of people my people knew but the names are lost to me but most of the photos are of people who I could never know because I bought them from a bin at a yard sale or antique store or the bottom of a box at the Salvation Army.\u00a0 These are people whose names are lost, except for a few scrawled in delicate script across the back, someone\u2019s attempt to hold on to identity a little bit longer.\u00a0 And so we\u2019ll all go some day,ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the photos and the letters lasting longer than our corporeal self could ever hope for.\u00a0 Enough from me, here is Kay Ryan\u2019s poem:<\/p>\n

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Things Shouldn\u2019t Be So Hard<\/address>\n
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A life should leave
\ndeep tracks
\nruts where she
\nwent out and back
\nto get the mail
\nor move the hose
\naround the yard;
\nwhere she used to
\nstand before the sink,
\na worn out place;
\nbeneath her hand
\nthe china knobs
\nrubbed down to
\nwhite pastilles;
\nthe switch she
\nused to feel for
\nin the dark
\nalmost erased.<\/p>\n

Her things should
\nkeep her marks.
\nThe passage
\nof a life should show;
\nit should abrade.
\nAnd when life stops,
\na certain space-
\nhowever small-
\nshould be left scarred
\nby the grand and
\ndamaging parade.<\/p>\n

Things shouldn\u2019t
\nbe so hard.<\/p>\n

-Kay Ryan<\/p>\n

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Here is a link to the Poetry Foundation website and it’s profile of Kay Ryan <\/a>http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/kay-ryan<\/a><\/p>\n

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