Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are): Poems

By: Stone, Ryan

Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are)
Poems by Ryan Stone

A jellyfish that never dies.
A swan that stays after love is gone.
A beetle with mirrors for eyes.
This quietly astonishing collection brings together strange truths from science, nature, and myth-each transformed into a lyrical poem that finds beauty in the unlikely.

Spare, mythic, and emotionally resonant, these thirty poems explore what it means to survive, to remember, to reach for connection-even when no one is listening.

For readers of Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, or Ada Lim n, Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are) is a poetic celebration of wonder, smallness, and the strange.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1LW8ZBL
• ISBN13: 9798272614476
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"