The bookstore

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The bookstore

Suddenly, he was there, twice looking

at me, with a rest of flour on his lips.

I thought, I had to leave it all,

behind me, one day.

Somehow, I could not make up

my mind.

In the bookstore

of my grandparents,

there are no children playing,

no more.

They have forgotten

how to read or write.

Up high, I needed ladders,

all kind of stairs

to reach out to some excellent

qualified books.

I am trying to hold my balance.

Someone, she has been trained

if you could fall, in another story.

Someone has to be fantastic.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

July 26, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9901944-the-skin-changed-in-a-colour-by-translucency-one-night

© 2019 Petra Hermans

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9283487-when-i-was-a-little-child-a-young-girl

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9268937-a-woman-of-the-world-a-woman-of-all-women

James Blunt, Back to Bedlam, You’re Beautiful

© 2004 Atlantic Recording Corporation

Photograph II : James Blunt – Back to Bedlam, You’re Beautiful

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