Poem for Moving Day

That Will to Divest

Action creates
a taste
for itself.
Meaning: once
you've swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests,
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to
divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what
singleness can bear,
once you've begun.

- Kay Ryan

Robert Bly chose this poem for The Best American Poetry 1999. That Will to Divest first appeared in The Yale Review.  Find Kay Ryan's books here.

-- sdh

Action creates
a taste
for itself.
Meaning: once
you've swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests,
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to
divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what
singleness can bear,
once you've begun.

- Kay Ryan

Robert Bly chose this poem for The Best American Poetry 1999. That Will to Divest first appeared in The Yale Review.  Find Kay Ryan's books here.

-- sdh

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