“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

“When we get there,
We're going to fly so far away
Making sure to laugh while we experience
Anti-gravity.”

“Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.”

“It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.”

“Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.”

“Open your mouth wide
A universal sigh”

“The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.”

“Willie was sound asleep in her lap, but he sucked her little finger. South of Long Beach we stopped at a drugstore and bought a bottle with a nipple, and a bottle of milk. Willie's eyes opened when she put the nipple to his mouth. He fell to his task like a fiend. Camilla lifted her arms high, ran her fingers through her hair, and yawned with pleasure.”

“A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers-
Black the gate leaps open, I sing;
How did we live here?”

“Fall is the season the leaves do dread, because gravity loves the color red.”