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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
Then I Returned to the House of the Slow Letting Go
I went out into the evening,
walked alone with my clippers
to dead-head the marigolds
the peonies, no longer spinning planets,
and the now brown-leafed […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
Links of Ladder
Higher than a hired man’s head,
a chain bubbles from the tree’s heart
and falling thirteen links, dares
a boy’s reaching, his pretending—
its original purpose unknown.
It is not a hanging […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
The Paperboy Sees No Wonder in It—
the Snow Giving off the Only Light at 6 AM
The boy could have lived forever
sliding down a hill, after watching cartoons.
Now the only cartoon is himself fa […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
losing the word
what is prayerbut our limbic words
offered
to an uncertain
trajectory,the cave images
given language
from our dark cities.i remember your prayer
outside memphis
whispered […] -
Lisa Ryan's profile was updated 7 years, 9 months ago
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.
Flowers in a Crystal Vase – Manet, 1882
At the members only showing
of flower paintings, we old folks
dress for comfort. Women in flats
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 12 months ago
We Always Called Him Fletcher
Never by his first name Albert, or Mr. Fletcher.
He was tall as a sugar pine, skin the colorof freckled walnuts, walked our whole
neighborhood haulingan extension […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 7 years, 12 months ago
The Sheets Pulled Over
When one thinks in love about love,
he’s doing what he shouldn’t. He will get it wrong.What if everything were revealed?
The apples and milk on your mindwhen we lay down in W […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 2 months ago
Smoke
—translated from Theophile Gautier’s Emaux et Cemées, 1852-1872
Down there, under sheltering trees:
A hunchbacked hovel of the poor—
Walls crumbling; roof down on its knees.
Moss blots the thres […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 5 months ago
2nd place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.
Rubble
The water found a home in our wreckage.
Our city, once a bastion of high times—
colored lights on strings, avenue […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 5 months ago
1st place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.
Hum
Out of the blue,
he gave her a recording.
She thought there was something
wrong with it, but they had only
slept together once,
she […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 12 months ago
In His Own Right
A conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate and Charlottesville resident Charles Wright
What the city of Charlottesville, Virginia lacks in size it makes up for in culture. You won’t go ten minutes w […] -
Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 12 months ago
Phone Sex in Three Acts
Act I.There is nothing noble about having phone sex
with your ex-girlfriend
in the bathroom of a friend’s apartment.The shower curtain looks offended.
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 8 years, 12 months ago
A Wild Thing And A Tended One
We can talk about these corduroy
pillows and how I want to shootmarbles with the ball joint
of your right shoulder. Last timeI tried to tell you about the guy
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 9 years, 2 months ago
I’m creatively constipated. That’s right, all input and no output. Binging on poetry, nothing to show at writing group. Forget the fifth round of revisions on that damn poem that won’t cooperate. Not in […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 9 years, 3 months ago
A good friend and fellow writer recently introduced me to Medium. NOT the dead-people-seeing-housewife tv show. Medium is a digital publishing platform/story-telling community for writers to eng […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 9 years, 7 months ago
On August 7-10, I had the privilege of attending the Virginia Quarterly Review’s first writers’ conference, along with roughly 25-30 participants, at the Boar’s Head Inn right here in Charlottesville, VA. Three […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 9 years, 8 months ago
In high school I was an associate editor for our school’s art and lit magazine, Pen & Ink. We’d meet weekly to review submissions under the tutelage of our faculty advisor, whose love and gift for teaching English […]
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Lisa Ryan wrote a new post 9 years, 10 months ago
Charlottesville, Virginia, where Streetlight operates from, is full of Ph.D candidates, post-docs and masters students, thanks to Mr. Jefferson’s University. Amid all the academic types, a person without some […]
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