Norman Dubie is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Volcano; The Quotations of Bone, winner of the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize; and Robert Schumann Is Mad Again (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). The recipient of the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation and the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry, Dubie lives and teaches in Tempe, Arizona.

Under a Tabloid Moon

by Norman Dubie

I

A clear afternoon. Forgive me
like the brass-loud horns
against the blinding snow of a hillside.

Cosmo Monkhouse has just begun to deliver
a eulogy over his very own corpse.
And smartly he just said it: Forgive me.


Drifts of nitrogen
crossing his hallucination of an original savannah
bordered by a yellow swamp.
People on couch
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