Emily Dickinson

National Poetry Month (April) is rapidly approaching, and Salt Lake City's Main Library will be hosting a lecture on the life and works of Emily Dickinson next week. In keeping with these events, I've decided to post a poem that I have written in Emily's honor. Here goes:



Emily D.


Emily D.
if I were me
I'd seek a place
you'd rather be

Some tea
a walk
then measured talk
of life and love eternity

Your quiet soul
your cloister ways
the clockish tick-out
of your days

Your buttoned hymns
will always be
a tidy room
where I am free