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Mr Higginson and Miss Dickinson Autor: Zmýlená (Občasný) - publikováno 25.6.2002 (19:42:04)
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Mr Higginson and Miss Dickinson
Let’s say
We’re in the
US
A
pril
Has been
Cut in half
Today
April
1862
A setting Greek to you
Or rather Yankee to you?
Exactly in the instant
When a certain
Mr
H
as just had a long
Profound
Sip of coffee
And pushed
His spectacles
Back on his
Highly respectable nose
Now fighting
With an envelope
Containing
A few pages
From a yet unknown
Miss
D
aring for the first time
In her life
To seek critisism
To inquire
„Whether her
Verses breathed“
At that very moment
Literary history
Should have
Corked off
A mammoth
Champagne bottle
But it didn’t
For it knew nothing
Not yet
„Remarkable
Though odd
Too delicate
Not strong enough
To publish
Ma’am“
Plain geometry
Can see nothing
But a funny
Extra-terrestrial
In a cube
Nor could
Contemporary
Poetry
Dive in her ocean
Free
Deep
3-
D
ickinson, Emily
A requiem
For 49 packets
Of folded stationary
That hadn’t touched
A printer
Before their
Mother
Was taken
By the dimension
No.
4
a genius
A bit too ahead
Of her time
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