Kwame Dawes. Courtesy photo. In this tiny conundrum of a poem, Ross Gay, a poet who defiantly affirms the possibilities of hope and gratitude, reminds us that the capacity to make a sound, to speak, to sing, is fully connected to the capacity to breathe, to live.
Gay’s recent book of essays, “The Book of Delights,” is its own catalogue of such hope.
ode to the flute By Ross Gay A man sings by opening his mouth a man sings by opening his lungs by turning himself into air a flute can be made of a man nothing is explained a flute lays on its side and prays a wind might enter it
Kwame Dawes. Courtesy photo. In this tiny conundrum of a poem, Ross Gay, a poet who defiantly affirms the possibilities of hope and gratitude, reminds us that the capacity to make a sound, to speak, to sing, is fully connected to the capacity to breathe, to live.
Gay’s recent book of essays, “The Book of Delights,” is its own catalogue of such hope.
ode to the flute By Ross Gay A man sings by opening his mouth a man sings by opening his lungs by turning himself into air a flute can be made of a man nothing is explained a flute lays on its side and prays a wind might enter it
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