Ryan Warren Verse-Virtual 2017 January

January 2017

I live with my family by the sea in Northern California where we try and balance our time between music, books, movies, the outdoors, working, playing and being present for each other's lives. My poetry has previously appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including California Quarterly, Wilderness House Literary Review and Firefly Magazine. More on my published works can be found at www.facebook.com/RyanWarrenPoetry.

photo by Jim Lewis

Heron

Is there a poem
in the eye of a heron?
Is there one in the subtle
arc of a neck?

Is there a poem in the blade
of a beak of a mouth,
when all you have are the keen
and wiry edges of your body,

your stillness in dry grasses,
to lay against all the poems
of the nervous and hungry
and yellow-eyed world?

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