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 * < I Love the Look of Words

Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor of a hot black skillet and into my mouth. Black words leap, snapping from the white page. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding into my brain which gobbles them the way my tongue and teeth chomp the buttered popcorn. When I have stopped reading, ideas from the words stay stuck iin my mind, like the sweet smell of butter perfuming my fingers long after the popcorn is finished. I love the book and the look of words the weight of ideas that popped into my mind I love the tracks of new thinking in my mind. || Maya Angelou's "I Love the Look of Words" is published in Tom Feelings' //Soul Looks Back in Wonder.// Feelings is a Caldecott Award-winning illustrator who opened doors for African-American artists.



The images in Soul Looks Back in Wonder actually came first and then Feelings asked the poets to create short verses in response to his images. ||
 * = -- Maya Angelou ||  ||