Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is the author of more than thirty works of poetry and prose, including The Needle’s Eye, Come and See, Indivisible, and The Winter Sun. “The First Church” appears in her new collection Love and I (Graywolf Press).

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Poems | From ‘The First Church’

They walked the mote. / Brown grasses pansies roses white clematis and hellebore. / Glad to live below and have mercy and no power

By Fanny Howe

October 4, 2019

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