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1 " a hymn then not to birds but to words which themselves feel like feather and wing and light, as if it were on the delicacy of such sweet syllables that flocks take flight. "
― Kei Miller , The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
2 " How much have we not seen or felt or heard because there was no word for it -- at least no word we knew? We speak to navigate ourselves away from dark corners and we become, each one of us, cartographers. "
3 " Know this, that lions who trod don't worry bout reaching Zion. In time is Zion that reach to the lions. "
4 " Know then that every heartbless given is collected by Jah like mickle and muckle,or like a basketful of cocoa, and comes back to you like a dividend. "
5 " And the ras saysit's all a Babylon conspiracyde bloodclawt immappancy of dis world—maps which throughout time havegripped like girdlesto make his people smaller thanthey were. "