“After an orange cloud — formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents — reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.”
“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?”
“The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.”
“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.”
“Gather out of star-dust,Earth-dust,Cloud-dust,Storm-dust,And splinters of hail,One handful of dream-dust,Not for sale.”
“It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain.In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all.”