The leaves are coming down, another circle going round
Reminding me of you and brighter times
When I got the news I cried and later realized
I’ll carry a part of you for all my life
—Kiya Heartwood, from “No Goodbyes, No Regrets”
Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Experience,” 1844
Our dreams make us large.
—Jack Kirby, from an interview on Prisoners of Gravity, TV Ontario; broadcast January 7, 1993