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Jessica Fjeld is a poet, teacher and lawyer. She is the author of Redwork (BOAAT Press 2018), and the chapbooks The Tide (Pilot Books 2010) and On animate life (2006), for which she received the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Conduit, jubilat, Shallow Ends, Sixth Finch and elsewhere. She received her MFA from UMass-Amherst, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize. For more information, please visit https://www.jessicafjeld.com
The poem and manuscript below were included in the printed program of the 2015 Discovery Winners’ Reading.
When I buried myself in the earth it was
in order to feel the coolness of the earth
and to give a reason
for why the earth was so silent
Here away from the god-like clouds
I could hold my own mind
like a small animal
And why not bellow
HULLLLLOOOOOOOOO
or feel further for the roots of trees?
I smelled around for the reason
The silence took the noise and
made more silence
