Of Mice and Men...

OK, this blog is not really about Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. It is really about Kay Ryan's poem, On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up, as this is indeed a most arduous task at times.

On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up

One does not stack.
It would be like
a mouse on the back
of a mouse
on a mouse's back.
Courses of mice,
layers of shivers
and whiskers,
a wobbling tower
mouse-wide,
with nothing more
than a mouse inside.


By Kay Ryan