| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 19397 |
| QUOTATION: | In the atom’s fizz and pop we heard possibility
uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.
A new planet bloomed above us; in its light
the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates.
The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot;
we could have anything we wanted. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949), U.S. poet. “The Planet Krypton” [poem], lines 23-28 (1992).
On watching atomic bomb testing in Nevada. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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