Afterwords // Kay Ryan: All Your Flamingos
By Jack Chelgren | Special Projects Intern When Tree Swenson, the executive director of Hugo House, introduced Kay Ryan for a lecture on rhyme last week, she noted the delightful sense of âhidden treasureâ lurking in Ryanâs work. That treasure, Swenson said, was rhyme: glowing little ingots of resonance between words. Itâs an apt observation. Take these lines from âAll Your Horses,â published recently in Poetry: Say when rain cannot make you more wet or a certain thought canât deepen and yet you think it again: you have lost count. A larger amount is no longer a larger amount.