Mary Jo Bang Quotes

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn’t true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life’s bargain that motion / Is hope.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.