Cindy III

“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and alleys of complicated syllables. They were stores that displayed a wide range of things, punctuation twinkling like the crest of a venerable family, sentences breathing peacefully, words whispering.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“I wonder how it feels like
to be a tiny fish
what flitters n darts
so free.

I wonder how it feels
to be the cool, clear water
what runs
without bein chased.”
― Ann E. Burg, Unbound: A Novel in Verse

“The Lord don't need a ribbon
to hear your mama's prayer,
she says,
n you don't need a ribbon
to remember your mama.
The things what we love,
we keep buried in our hearts.”
― Ann E. Burg, Unbound: A Novel in Verse

“A baby'll always be
tied to her mama's heart,
she says real quiet,

n I wonder
how many babies
is buried
in Aunt Tempie's heart.”
― Ann E. Burg