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 Contents | March 2003 More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
Mourning Cloak
(Nymphalis antiopa) by Christina Pugh .....  Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)How it burdens, under glass: the gray shingles of the wings pressed from flight, slate or wood grain once thinned to buoyancy when this butterfly peppered streams, its cloak hemmed in near glint, grief worn as lightness, its crape wild in the open air between two sleeps.
Christina Pugh is a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of the chapbook Gardening at Dusk (2002). Copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; March 2003; Mourning Cloak; Volume 291, No. 2; 92. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | ||
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