Joseph Crisanti’s Reviews > On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

“That was the day I learned how dangerous a color can be. That a boy could be knocked off that shade and made to reckon his trespass. Even if the color is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn, above all else, the law of gravity”

“the hummingbird’s whirring sounds almost like human breath. Its beak jabs into the pool of sugar water at the feeder’s base. What a terrible life, I think, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.”

“The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past”