“everyone wants to know what I saw on the long walk away from you I couldn’t eat and didn’t sleep for an entire week I can hardly picture any of it now save the fox I thought was in the grass but wasn’t I remember him quiet as a telescope tiny as a Plutonian moon everything else was wilding around us…”— Kaveh Akbar, apmpodcasts.org
“It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and…”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com