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The Fallen Bird of the Fields a Zone 3 Press Book by Norman Dubie

The Fallen Bird of the Fields

  • Norman Dubie
  • Norman Dubie

I.

 

She sings to the worms in transit
between the orchard
and the ghost hurtling glacier,
the ta sa la of the stone dead,
but in passage
over a sack of coal
and the basket of seed potatoes.

It is the messenger bee, at last,
carrying a green and copper scroll
with the legitimate characters
of naked apostasy
written there in red and yellow pollen;
stone dead in the branches, the apples
have gone the beggar red
of a pomegranate.
Deer are grazing on the limestone ledges.

This is the cipher of everyone leaving us.
Not just with a fresh loneliness
but with those eyes of potatoes

for the only witnesses.

  • About Norman Dubie
  • Norman Dubie is the author of twenty-nine books of poetry, most recently The Quotations of Bone (Copper Canyon, 2015). His other books include The Volcano (2010), The Insomniac Liar of Topo (2007), Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum (2004), and The Mercy Seat (2001). Dubie’s writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the recipient of the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry in 2002, and fellowships and grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Dubie teaches English at Arizona State University.
  • In Praise of The Fallen Bird of the Fields
The Fallen Bird of the Fields a Zone 3 Press Book by Norman Dubie

The Fallen Bird of the Fields

  • Norman Dubie
  • 20.00
  • Poetry
  • The Fallen Bird of the Fields

I.

 

She sings to the worms in transit
between the orchard
and the ghost hurtling glacier,
the ta sa la of the stone dead,
but in passage
over a sack of coal
and the basket of seed potatoes.

It is the messenger bee, at last,
carrying a green and copper scroll
with the legitimate characters
of naked apostasy
written there in red and yellow pollen;
stone dead in the branches, the apples
have gone the beggar red
of a pomegranate.
Deer are grazing on the limestone ledges.

This is the cipher of everyone leaving us.
Not just with a fresh loneliness
but with those eyes of potatoes

for the only witnesses.

The Fallen Bird of the Fields

  • Norman Dubie
  • 20.00
  • Poetry
The Fallen Bird of the Fields a Zone 3 Press Book by Norman Dubie
  • The Fallen Bird of the Fields

I.

 

She sings to the worms in transit
between the orchard
and the ghost hurtling glacier,
the ta sa la of the stone dead,
but in passage
over a sack of coal
and the basket of seed potatoes.

It is the messenger bee, at last,
carrying a green and copper scroll
with the legitimate characters
of naked apostasy
written there in red and yellow pollen;
stone dead in the branches, the apples
have gone the beggar red
of a pomegranate.
Deer are grazing on the limestone ledges.

This is the cipher of everyone leaving us.
Not just with a fresh loneliness
but with those eyes of potatoes

for the only witnesses.

  • About Norman Dubie
  • Norman Dubie is the author of twenty-nine books of poetry, most recently The Quotations of Bone (Copper Canyon, 2015). His other books include The Volcano (2010), The Insomniac Liar of Topo (2007), Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum (2004), and The Mercy Seat (2001). Dubie’s writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the recipient of the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry in 2002, and fellowships and grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Dubie teaches English at Arizona State University.
  • In Praise of The Fallen Bird of the Fields
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