Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Found Poem from a Letter by Emily Dickinson

A letter from Elizabeth Holland (Mrs. J. G. Holland) to American poet Emily Dickinson and her sister jointly, in 1877, called forth this protest. This is a found poem of mine from Emily's letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland.


A mutual plum is not a plum.
I was too respectful
to take the pulp
and do not like a stone.

Send no union letters.
The soul must go by Death alone,
so, it must by life,
if it is a soul.

If a committee --
no matter.


Source: Letters by Emily Dickinson, selected and edited by Emily Fragos (copyright 2011 by Everyman's Library) 

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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