Kay Ryan is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. Therefore it seems appropriate to post one of her poems!
We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It
The first fear
being drowning, the
ship’s first shape
was a raft, which
was hard to unflatten
after that didn’t
happen. It’s awkward
to have to do one’s
planning in extremis
in the early years -
so hard to hide later:
sleekening the hull,
making things
more gracious.
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