He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true.
Most of it would be true.
Ulysses looked out the window and saw the sun glowing on the horizon. Soon it would be time to eat.
A wonderful thought occurred to the squirrel.
Maybe there would be donuts, giant donuts, for breakfast.
Words for Flora
Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
everything,
all of it —
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts, eggs sunny - side up —
you
are the ever - expanding
universe
to me.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Text copyright © 2013 by Kate DiCamillo
Excerpt from “Gott spricht zu jedem . . . / God speaks to each of us . . .” from Rilke’s Book of Hours:
Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy,
copyright © 1996 by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.
Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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First electronic edition 2013
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2012947748
ISBN 978-0-7636-6040-6 (hardcover)
The illustrations were created in pencil.
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