The way an oyster does A Fragment by Kay Ryan www.csmonitor.com Her poems, [Kay Ryan] says, don't begin with a simple image or sound, but instead start "the way an oyster does, with an aggravation." An old saw may nudge her repeatedly, such as "It's always darkest before the dawn" or "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "I think, 'What about those chickens?' " she says, "and I start an investigation of what that means. Poets rehabilitate clichés." poetrymeaningcliché
Crown A Poem by Kay Ryan www.poetryfoundation.org Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to. naturetreesmelancholytouch
Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design An Article by David Bryant Copeland brutalist-web.design Content is readable on all reasonable screens and devices. Only hyperlinks and buttons respond to clicks. Hyperlinks are underlined and buttons look like buttons. The back button works as expected. View content by scrolling. Decoration when needed and no unrelated content. Performance is a feature. What On Earth is a Brutalist Website?The split personality of brutalist web development brutalismwwwhtml