Franny Choi Quotes

Turns out, there are no synonyms for King.

I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak.

knotted up; frayed; faked own death; kept showing
up in new clothes, new names; then leaving

There are only so many parallel universes
that concern us. In one, he isn't dead.

In another, you drink light with your hands
all winter. There is a universe in which no one is lying

emptied in the street as the gas station burns, a universe
in which our mothers haven't learned to wrap

their bones in each small grief they've found.
There is a universe in which there is no difference

between the past and the ground. Another
where the oceans pull the moon. And so on.

This is an incomplete list. It has been abridged
for your comfort.

(does not dream; is only dreamed of)

No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.

Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night.

Kingdom carved. At the end of the line, we made our own place.

I buried myself all over the garden but the pieces only sprouted into new riddles

Here, in a seed, is a cyborg: A bleeding girl, dragging a knife through the sand. An imaginary girl who dreams of becoming trash.

All things birth their own opposites.

but some of us are born / in orbit / so learn /to commune with miles of darkness / patterns of dead gods / & quiet / o quiet like you / wouldn't believe

My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts.

Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else's trash.