New England Diary

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‘Pure purple’

Asters

“Wild aster, bee balm, phlox, chrysanthemum

Proclaim pure purple in the pallid dawn,

Asserting there’s more blossoming to come….’’

— From “Late Summer Purple,’’ by Robert Pack (born 1929), American poet and teacher who taught at Middlebury College, in Vermont, from 1973 to 1995