Friday, April 3, 2020

npm2020: poetry videos day 3 "A Purple Place"

My National Poetry Month Project 2020 is to record a short video each day in April, presenting my published poems to poetry lovers of all ages!

Today's poem is a good one for this time of global pandemic and big feelings.



A Purple Place


Purple is an inside color,
like the lining of a cape—
    like the dusky
    like the musky
inside of a hiding place.

A purple place all lined with dust
that I didn’t know was here—
    a certain place
    a curtain place
behind my granddad’s heavy chair.

And when I’m in this purple place
my heartbeat is the only sound—
    inside the plush
    inside the hush
what’s inside me rushes out.



1 comment:

  1. Yes, the special places we can go to in our memories for comfort. I would be curious to hear how this poem came to you. Did you have one like this or your kids? Or just your imagination. Your language as always is richly woven and chosen.

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