Paige Ryan
@paigevryan.bsky.social
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Poet & hybrid-form enthusiast drawn to soft things with sharp edges: plants with inner lives, bodies that won’t behave, & the absurd comedy of daily life. Best of the Net–nominee. Poems in The Hopper, Tiny Seed Lit., Plants & Poetry, and elsewhere.
![A poem that reads:
TO BE HEARD, ONE NEEDN'T MAKE A SOUND
I am myself tree-like,
the who of me
a fist of wood and xylem.
Did you know?
If a girl falls in a forest and no one's around to hear it, her fingers pierce the soiled ground and keep growing.
Years later, she's a woman
[buried alive in dirt]
and her favorite thing
is to watch from her branches,
the way the rain bleeds yellow with meadow pollen.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ex7e3wxoyfaepalv3fman5c/bafkreifdavrhcsfghqcmoqlg3nge7xfchoesvmmdmzoj5t3u7lacgefhca)
