What else is the purple gold of the fig’s skin
A rare koi or two
The opaque amethyst in my childhood ring
The last moments of an August sunset
off Pacific Northwest islands
Seen at the aquarium with its round
right eye and larger tubular
upward facing left its plum dark body
a Histioteuthis or swimming cockeyed squid
Susan Kolodny is the author of two collections: Preserve (Finishing Line Press) and After the Firestorm (Mayapple Press). Her poems appear in/on Raven’s Perch, New England Review, NY Quarterly and in many other journals and several anthologies. She lives and writes in Oakland.
