Jane Miller’s poetry volumes include Midnights, a collaboration with the artist Beverly Pepper; A Palace of Pearls; and Thunderbird (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a book-length collection of short poems. On the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, she lives in Tucson and is at work on Seven Mediterraneans, a fanciful memoir.

Purple Field

by Jane Miller

A flash of light ricochets off a skyscraper

onto a button on the svelte coat of a pedestrian
                                                      who finds herself in a car
then on a jet next
                            on a slow boat cruising for her missing
host & hostess too suddenly
             the suburbs empty their syringes of anesthesia


finally screams from an emergency
                                                      fill the hospital I have gone
with inquiries to boost & ensure in your vernacular
People on couch
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