Wiped clean-let us never be rescued from this mess. After all the potsĪre stacked, the goodies cooled, and all the counters With love, a table overflowing with baked goods Over the coffee table, the kitchen countertops Of fur rise, rise over the little gnarly blue rug, In the city was rescued from his apartment World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments And in that slowdown, you might think it’s a kind of love. You might think of a heartbeat- your own. Its luminescence could very well be the spark that reminds us to make a most necessary turn- a shift and a swing and a switch- toward cherishing this magnificent and wondrous planet. Such a tiny light, for such a considerable task. Did you see that? A single firefly is, too. Can you hear that? The cassowary is trying to tell us something. In that spark is a slowdown and tenderness. A single firefly might be the spark that sends us back to our grandmother’s backyard to listen for whip-poor-wills the spark that sends us back to splashing in an ice-cold creek bed, with our jeans rolled up to our knees, until we shudder and gasp, our toes fully wrinkled. Moving between vignettes from Nezhukumatathil's life and her ponderings on nature, World of Wonders is a one-of-a-kind book you won't want to miss this year. It might make me feel like I’m traveling again to a gathering of loved ones dining seaside on a Greek island, listening to cicada song and a light wind rustling the mimosa trees. 'Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders is a gorgeous collection of essays that ruminate on flora, fauna, and what they can teach us about life itself. “For me, what a single firefly can do is this: it can light a memory I thought was long lost in roadsides overrun with Queen Anne’s lace and goldenrod, a peach pie cooling in the window of a distant house.
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