1 Much of America’s rural drama on TV depends on looks or grunts or gasps, not on words, in contrast to French shows, which crawl in conversations that require you to jump from one English subtitle to the next at impossible speed, even if your reading is good and your eyesight is normal 2 It was a mistake to plant daffodils along the sides of narrow windy roads in Cornwall. Nobody comes to Cornwall for daffodils. It had to be some kind of bright person in the tourist office who thought of making the bleak roads cheerful.
George Ryan was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin. He lives in New York City. Elkhound has published in Finding Americas, as well as Other Places, Other Times, and most recently Cumulonimbus. His poems are nearly all about incidents that involve real people in real places and use straightforward language.
