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Sharks' Teeth

Sharks' Teeth

By Kay Ryan b. 1945 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.

Source: Poetry (April 2004).

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Poet Kay Ryan b. 1945

POET’S REGION U.S., Western

Subjects Nature, Cities & Urban Life, Social Commentaries

Poetic Terms Free Verse, Pastoral, Metaphor