Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Kay Ryan's "The Best of It" US Poet Laureate '08-10

Kay Ryan (b Amer 1945) has received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and named US Poet Laureate ('08-10).  I first came upon one of her poems in the NY subway as part of the MTA's poetry in motion.  I'm a huge fan of the poems & artistic posters that pop up serendipitously like jewels uncovered in a scavenger hunt.  The treasure wrought by gifted poets, and Ms. Ryan is more than just gifted, she bestows luminosity and lyricism to a compilation of words that is miraculous.  Ryan presents us with breathtaking poems in "The Best of It" that are arresting & consuming.  Ryan's haunting legacy speaks to the potency & artistry that can be construed & relished from the deliberate alignment of words strung together.                        TUNE

Imagine a sea
of ultramarine
suspending a
million jellyfish
as soft as moons
Imagine the
interlocking uninsistent
tunes of drifting things.
This is the deep machine
that powers the lamps
of dreams and accounts
for their bluish tint,
How can something
so grand and serene
vanish again and again
without a hint?

Indeed...