Connolly Ryan captures the wistfulness of fatherhood: a man and his daughter “feeding the geese pretend-bread /and laughing at their easeful /acceptance of this fiction.”
Behind Every Marriage
"Even a love that fails /has done its job, /has instilled in its hosts /a definition of loneliness /worth sharing and worth /dying towards."
“Even a love that fails /has done its job, /has instilled in its hosts /a definition of loneliness /worth sharing and worth /dying towards.”