Dear Miss Dickinson,<\/p>\n
Our felicitations to you on the 177th anniversary of your birth (December 10, 1830).<\/p>\n
Robert feels compelled to confess something: You know that poem you wrote, the one that starts “I’m nobody! Who are you? \/ Are you nobody, too?” Robert can’t abide it. Never could. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to him. He is, however, very fond of many of your other poems, including this one for a windy day:
\n
\nThere came a wind like a bugle;
\nIt quivered through the grass,
\nAnd a green chill upon the heat
\nSo ominous did pass
\nWe barred the windows and the doors
\nAs from an emerald ghost;
\nThe doom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electric moccason
\nThat very instant passed.
\nOn a strange mob of panting trees,
\nAnd fences fled away,
\nAnd rivers where the houses ran
\nThe living looked that day.
\nThe bell within the steeple wild
\nThe flying tidings whirled.
\nHow much can come
\nAnd much can go,
\nAnd yet abide the world!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Miss Dickinson,<\/p>\n
Our felicitations to you on the 177th anniversary of your birth (December 10, 1830).<\/p>\n
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