Johanna's BlogKate Fagan
Kate Fagan is a writer, editor and musician whose books of poetry include The Long Moment, Thought’s Kilometre and return to a new physics. Her doctoral thesis explored the poetics of Lyn Hejinian. Kate is the a former editor of How2, a US-based online journal of innovative poetry and poetics. She is also an established songwriter and performer whose album Diamond Wheel won the National Film & Sound Archive Award for Best Folk Album http://www.katefagan.com/
Kate's poem, 'Workman, Honeyeater', was commissioned for the Pigeon Poetry project in 2008 and features again in Poems to Share albums as part of a collaboration between The Red Room Company and Corban & Blair.
Workman, Honeyeater
Yesterday I sat at my desk
and watched a honeyeater skip
along a thousand leaves like arrows,
closer to truth than I could hazard.
Its helmet of sleek feathers shook
in the long, fluid rain. These eaves
say nothing of Oppen's culture
of fitting: quietly the roof lies
that the carpenter has finished. No-
this house was built without a level,
chambered and chiselled
to the rough designs of the heart.
The bird chitterscolds and darts,
carries the day in its wake.
