Christina Pugh

The Stone

This one     tattooed by
Superior’s   waves     if a
snake had      slid across
to  ink     some faint and
sinewy stripe to     bisect                   
sheets of     less-than-
incandescent    light

Sea Gooseberry

 
 
trailing       its opal lamp
its        pare-strand
of angel        hair    it
flickers        a  microscopic     
seaward          marquis

Framed Dragonfly

The wings are      nearly
nothing       some filament
from baby’s      brush       
The wing         thus
porthole       to the leaf



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Christina Pugh is the author of three books of poems, including Grains of the Voice (Northwestern University Press, 2013).  Her fourth book, Perception, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2017.  She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship in poetry, and has also received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry magazine, the Illinois Arts Council, Ragdale, and the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy.   Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and other publications.  She is a professor in UIC’s Program for Writers, and consulting editor for Poetry. ­­