Saturday, August 13, 2005

0028 Emily Dickinson Considers Her Breasts Comments

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White silk gown – Sunday silk – yet
daily donned – tight-cuffed –
cool hands – folded - warm lap -
milk-white - under orange vest – and -
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Michael Shepherd 14 August 2005

OK I'm coming out with my hands up.. almost every significant phrase comes from the lady herself. It's the Reader's Digest edit of her 1500? poems...and it arose, dear reader, from a poets' discussion about even passionate lady poets of the 19th century not mentioning their bodies...

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