One Crossed Out Quotes

“Walk to developmental old trombone- I -

seeking to be found-
inside time!- by one whose blues

seek by speaking tunes to
this specific city afternoon

of bread, fumes, and orange
nasturtiums- am, still, solo-

even the base of me being, unknown.”
― Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out: Poems

“A body's interior is a serpent studded with corruption.
From the will of each person-to secret egos-
she sees a net, dot-to-dot, interconnected, with persons
bent over it, laborious, intent, the whole world
working together on one collective project.

When your mouth remembers a bit of bread
left on a plate and leads you back to finish it,
you are having the experience-
close to the surface- by which you usually live.”
― Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out: Poems