Peter Kalnin

“After You Left

the weight of your absence
became a black hole revolving
around my memory of you--itself
a black hole. Wavelets wrinkled
the sheer sheet of space and time.
Father, the loss of you is a planet
orbiting what might have been.
I cannot say if the emptiness is
a grand celestial body or a vacuum
so complete nothing can escape. I know
these forces have mass and motion
that bends, calls in, ripples fabric--
distorts the pace of light
for a billion years.”
― Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things

“The 100-year-old man set off in his pee-slippers (so called because men of an advanced age rarely pee farther than their shoes),”
― Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

“Problems are just opportunities looked at the wrong way round – that’s what the positive thinkers say, isn’t it?”
― Peter Grainger, The Rags of Time

“Obstacles cannot crush me...he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind”
― Leonardo da Vinci