Listing Quotes

“Don't forget listing have different meanings and uses in life.”
― Victor Nizeyimana

“I list what I had for breakfast.
I whisper the ingredients for my signature coconut cake.
I take a deep breath, the scents of a thousand shifts at the restaurant tucked into the fabric of the front seat. I start listing them too: mango and cilantro and epazote, tomatillos and roasted pepitas and tortillas.
The truth is, I can't sleep without those smells tangled in my hair.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

“Sometimes I lift the old blue paperback

of Common Wild Flowers & read from it a litany of the words
for the world we have been given by those who came before:
Keck & Traveller’s Joy. Violet. Primrose. Nightshade, Nettle,

Shepherd’s-­purse. Honeysuckle, Broom.
If to name is an act
of owning, perhaps to list is to spend or to sow. Profligate.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems