Grey Sparrow Journal

Summer 2010, Issue 5

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Presidential Poet Ted Kooser is one of America's national treasures.  He served two terms as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress  from October 2004 to May 2006 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book,  Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press 2004.)  Poet Kooser's writing weaves deep textures in the fabric of thought. His poem, "In the Corners of Fields," affirms a sense of hope and life.

In the Corners of Fields

 

by Ted Kooser 

 

 

Something is calling to me
from the corners of fields,
where the leftover fence wire
suns its loose coils, and stones
thrown out of the furrow
sleep in warm litters;
where the gray faces
of old No Hunting signs
mutter into the wind,
and dry horse tanks
spout fountains of sunflowers;
where a moth
flutters in from the pasture,
harried by sparrows,
and alights on a post,
so sure of its life
that it peacefully opens its wings.

 

 

 

"In the Corners of Fields" from Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, by Ted Kooser , ©2005.  Reprinted by kind permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press and Presidential Poet Ted Kooser.  His poem will be reprinted in our spring print issue as well.

 

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