by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thomas Wentworth Higginson reported Dickinson’s comments about sweets in a letter to his wife: “‘People must have puddings’ this [was said] very dreamily, as if they were comets—so she makes them” (L342a) http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/book/export/html/44 Once...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | TI
From giant, bulging cylinders the fans Sprayed out the fog to kill mosquitoes. How They acted I don’t know. Cancelled their banns? Abandoned buggy fucking? Stuttered, “Ow!”? I wonder if the city fathers were Opposed to free flight sex on buzzing wings. Were men...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | DI
‘Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the “deepening menace” of death, especially the deaths of those who were close to her. When Sophia Holland, her second cousin and a close friend, grew ill from typhus and died in April 1844, Emily was...