A Smaller Purple, and: Call the Soul
- A Smaller Purple, and: Call the Soul
A Smaller Purple
(Emily Dickinson)
Small like the bee’sbalm rememberedin the field – a tatterat the blossom andthe hue fadedeastward: – deep
sips missingfrom the beveledglass that constitutesour lovedcolor, violet [End Page 149]
Call the Soul
Not just a flamebut a foliateflame: neverconcentric nor rippled-meteoric buthaptic tacticalretinal a breadbox [End Page 150]
Christina Pugh
Christina Pugh’s most recent book of poems is Grains of the Voice (Northwestern University Press / TriQuarterly Books, 2013). She is an associate professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and consulting editor at Poetry magazine.
