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"It was worth believing in an impossible story of God, so when death occurred and the impossible happened, you already believed that anything could be true, and if you believed in heaven, you would be so much less sad."
#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) https://calirb.com/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai/
'While for his part, David barreled ahead, speaking with his trademark urgency, attention to detail, and utter disregard for whether what he was saying was furthering or confounding his purpose.'
Eve in Hollywood
Amor Towles
#SundaySentence #AmorTowles #bookstodon
"I'll multiply and I'll increase
As I always have---by mere caprice;
For I am a queen and I am a bee,
I'm devil-may-care and I'm fancy-free"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Song of the Queen Bee by E.B. White (1945 The @NewYorker) http://www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm
"The dye lots were registered in memory:
appleskin, chocolate, porcelain pan,
the stitches remembered like faded rhymes:
pineapple, sunflower, window pane, shell."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Crochet by Jan Mordenski from Quiet Music: A Plainsong Reader (1995 Plainsong Press) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53578/crochet
"soon she will find
the Garden of Eden
where she will pluck
the thornless roses to
offer a god who will
not shame her for
her desire to know"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Not made of rib, but ocean by @AmandaEarl (2026 League of Canadian Poets) https://poets.ca/not-made-of-rib-but-ocean-by-amanda-earl/
"Come friend, neighbor,
you, come set the garden on fire
with all our hard-earned years, tender labor
of being here, ceaseless & volcanic
making of being here, together."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (2014 Split This Rock) https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/set-the-garden-on-fire
"Did
the world exist before I was born?
Or am I just a character
in your imagination, you whose
birthday marks the beginning
of the world?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Delmore Schwartz by Stuart Ross (2026 Newpoetry.ca) https://newpoetry.ca/2026/03/23/delmore-schwartz/
A Tooter
