AS I SAID TO EMILY DICKINSON
2&
'There is no frigate like a book
@to stir imaginations?
We've collected buckets
of ancient stars,
created new constellations.
DICKINSON2&'There is no frigate like a...
AS I SAID TO EMILY
I'd prefer one fanciful flight
in his arms
to a shelf full of bound
imitations.''
WHAT I LEARNED IN MISS STRASBURGER'S CLASS
7+
Schoolgirls who sat up front in class
became well versed in lessons
planned and in the unplanned lessons
taught by teacher's hands.
Like the mother stroking
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the newborn's head
the artist stroking his last
few lines,
her fingers stroked pages
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she read aloud,
almond-tipped fingers
(
caressing the rhymes.
While my heart filled with
rapture, too,
her hands wrought magic
of their own,
subject matter I learned
by heart
as I became, for the term,
)
the words in the poem.
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