Maria Ejike

“If only there were a way to hold a moment in your hands and keep it alive forever.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“and easily
she adored

every blossom,

not in the serious,
careful way
that we choose
this blossom or that blossom—

the way we praise or don’t praise—
the way we love
or don’t love—
but the way

we long to be—
that happy
in the heaven of earth—
that wild, that loving.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

“When I think of death
it is a bright enough city,”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird