| WFR POETRY |
| WFR POETRY |
Doors Open
by George Ryan
1
There is no chance her way of
carrying grocery bags
carelessly could crack the eggs.
Some hens lay them standing up.
2
The drop on the tip of his nose
tells him which way the wind blows
3
He looked as though he might be employed
at the kind of store where you can find
household soil for carnivorous plants
4
(thanks to Marina Warner)
Frantz Fanon, working as a psychiatric doctor
in Algeria, treated survivors of torture
and their torturers. Both were
haunted, hobbled, incapacitated
by what they had been through, what they had done.
George Ryan was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin. He lives in New York City. Elkhound published his “Finding Americas,” as well as “Other Places,” “Other Times,” and most recently “Cumulonimbus.” His poems are nearly all about incidents that involve real people in real places and use straightforward language.