“I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...”

“Sawtooth slumps into his deck chair and stares up at the sky. It's a drunken sky, the stars hiccupping light. Great gusty clouds go spinning past the moon. The bright planets feel like pinpricks to Sawtooth's old eyes.”

“God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.”

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”

“The stars froze in the sky, and the moon went dark, and all the world stopped and stared, awed at the sheer, breathtaking passion blazing between us.”

“Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.”