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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Emily Dickinson: Four Poems having Kate Scott Turner in Mind

Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner
unauthenticated portrait, c. 1859
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1.
Heart, not so heavy as mine
Wending late home -
As it passed my window
Whistled itself a tune -
A careless snatch - a ballad -
A ditty of the street -
Yet to my irritated Ear
An Anodyne so sweet -
It was as if a Bobolink
Sauntering this way
Carolled, and paused, and carolled -
Then bubbled slow away!
It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a dusty way -
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why!
Tomorrow, night will come again -
Perhaps, weary and sore -
Ah Bugle! By my window
I pray you pass once more.


2.
It cant be "Summer"!
That - got through!
It's early - yet- for "Spring"!
There's that long town of White - to cross -
Before the Blackbirds sing!
It cant be "Dying"!
It's too Rouge -
The Dead shall go in White -
So Sunet shuts my question down
With Cuffs of Chrysolite!


3.
When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,
When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road,
When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee -
Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!


4.
There are two Ripenings - one - of sight -
Whose forces Spheric wind
Until the Velvet product
Drop spicy to the ground -
A homelier maturing -
A process in the Bur -
That teeth of Frosts alone disclose
In far October Air.




(Emily Dickinson)

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