Cool-looking authors No.28

Michael Chabon, author of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Wonder Boys," "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," "Maps and Legends" and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"

(Photo by Bridget Summers)

Gray

Her eyes
the pale gray
of rainwater
pooled
in a dish
left on the
window ledge.

— Michael Chabon, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"

Magic

The magician seemed to promise
that something torn to bits
might be mended without a seam ...
The true magic of this broken world
lay in the ability of the things
it contained to vanish,
to become so thoroughly lost,
that they might never have existed in the first place.
-- Michael Chabon, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"

Creation

Sammy felt an ache in his chest
that turned out to be,
as so often occurs when
memory and desire cojoin
with a transient effect of weather,
the pang of creation.
-- Michael Chabon, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"