Peter Kalnin

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“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

Beverly Cleary
“But also, as you go through life, you pick up shreds of things, and eventually you are able to fit them together”
Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Philip Roth
“And who's next, Mr. and Mrs. America, now that the Bill of Rights is no longer the law of the land and the racial haters are running the show”
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

Beverly Cleary
“Love isn’t like a cup of sugar that gets used up,”
Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Brave

“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

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