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
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.
nothing some filament
from baby’s brush
The wing thus
porthole to the leaf
--
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.