Close Calls Quotes

“Pratfalls and close calls
Cartoon the room”
― Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead

“In the five a.m. dark, a car with bright lights
and hazard lights blinking drives directly at me;
veering across the yellow lines, I pass by it

and exhale: amethyst crystals accrete
on a string: I will live to see pear
blossoms in the orchard, red-winged black-

birds nesting in the cattails”
― Arthur Sze, Sight Lines