welcomes the new poet laureate!

I am happy to know that Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate. I thought I'd share one of her lovely poems with you here on my blog, just to get started.

Patience

Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.

That just speaks to me right now.