One more…. (hope it’s not too heavy)
“I have humiliated myself so I can participate in the city.
I have smothered my own cries in order to survive.
I have tied myself down to the number system
so I can disappear into the stream of the economy.
Whenever an old woman is seen going
into a dark forest with two children you know they are escaping.
They are not dying. Why else would they be so bright of eye?”
~Fanny Howe 
so… nostr 💜
What’s interesting about the poem is her use of “I” — for 5 lines— then a transition into “old woman” — and then she addresses a “you.”
The aspect of time intrigues me— the type of poem that can be placed in many places— “dark forest” — real & surreal
“humiliation” — a powerful word. Invokes the audience on multiple levels.
the use of they caught my attention. it’s how howe autorefers, no? dark forest would be themselves then as well as the woman and the two children, holistic af thus timeless
