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Thin

By Kay Ryan
How anything
is known
is so thin—
a skin of ice
over a pond
only birds might
confidently walk
upon. A bird's
worth of weight
or one bird-weight
of Wordsworth.

Source: Poetry (April 2005)
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POETRY Magazine cover of April 2005 issue, featuring illustration "Dancers: Superjiggernaught" by Henrik Drescher
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