Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Emily Dickinson on dreaming about her father

I dream about father every night,
always a different dream,
and forget what I am doing daytimes,
wondering where he is.
Without any body, I keep thinking.
What kind can that be?

-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Source: New Poems of Emily Dickinson (1993),
edited by William H. Shurr
with Anna Dunlap & Emily Grey Shurr

Emily Dickinson
American poet

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