Tuesday, March 13, 2007

No. 1194

We like March -- his shoes are Purple.
He is new and high --
Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler --
Makes he Forests Dry --
Knows the Adders Tongue his coming
And begets her spot --
Stands the Sun so close and mighty --
That our Minds our hot.
News is he of all the others --
Bold it were to die
With the Blue Birds buccaneering
On his British sky --


--Emily Dickinson

1 comment:

karsten said...

Emily Dickinson was the first and greatest American poet. She explained her style in a letter thusly:

"You think my gait 'spasmodic.' I am in danger, sir. You think me 'un- controlled.' I have no tribunal."

You can find some of these letters in an old article here: http://www.earlywomenmasters.net/essays/authors/higginson/twh_dickinson.html