Making of a Poem: Kyra Wilder on "John Wick Is So Tired" - The Paris Review

For our new series Making of a Poem, we're asking poets to dissect the poems they've published in our pages.Kyra Wilder's "John Wick Is So Tired" appears in our new Spring issue, no.243.How did this poem start for you?Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase?With the first line.It was something I'd thought a lot about-I run marathons, and in those tense few days before the race, when I'm drinking water and carb loading and meditating on what's going to happen, I watch John Wick, specifically because of the way Keanu Reeves runs.

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