Sunday Sentence: Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.

       I can see them standing politely on the wide pages
       that I was still learning to turn
       Jane in a blue jumper, Dick with his crayon-brown hair,
       playing with a ball or exploring the cosmos
       of the backyard, unaware they are the first characters,
       the boy and the girl who begin fiction.

“First Reader”
from Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins