Maria Ejike

“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

“They fought for nothing, which is why you see yourself in them.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird