Poem

Fanny Howe

Side by side

Yellow Goblins

Yellow goblins
and a god I can swallow:

Eyes in the evergreens
under ice.

Interior monologue
and some voice.

Weary fears, the
usual trials and

a place to surmise
blessedness.

Fanny Howe

(United States of America, 1940)

Fanny Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. In a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review Howe said, “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone’s notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.” Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her wor...

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Yellow Goblins

Yellow goblins
and a god I can swallow:

Eyes in the evergreens
under ice.

Interior monologue
and some voice.

Weary fears, the
usual trials and

a place to surmise
blessedness.