found it (ED poem)
It being, of course, the poem by Alan DeNiro I couldn't locate this morning.
(You know, in reference to entomologists and flies buzzing when you die.)
I love this poem.
Emily Dickinson Dancing
She dances like a bomb
when no one is looking, bedroom
curtain drawn she
dances like a bomb with thin
flappy corsets and maverick hems and
when the door
is closed she dances
like a bomb: glycerine, skinny
tonic, legs salvoing bare
wall kicking out, and the gardener
doesn't dance like a bomb
and the mother doesn't
dance like a bomb, jigging the
bones, hair
plaited back, refrained
with ribbon, she is twenty,
she is fifty, she is still dancing
like no one would expect in the town,
she hums her hymn, the door
is closed
back, just the surprised
tabby witnessing
her dancing like a
bomb and her bare feet shake.
(You know, in reference to entomologists and flies buzzing when you die.)
I love this poem.
Emily Dickinson Dancing
She dances like a bomb
when no one is looking, bedroom
curtain drawn she
dances like a bomb with thin
flappy corsets and maverick hems and
when the door
is closed she dances
like a bomb: glycerine, skinny
tonic, legs salvoing bare
wall kicking out, and the gardener
doesn't dance like a bomb
and the mother doesn't
dance like a bomb, jigging the
bones, hair
plaited back, refrained
with ribbon, she is twenty,
she is fifty, she is still dancing
like no one would expect in the town,
she hums her hymn, the door
is closed
back, just the surprised
tabby witnessing
her dancing like a
bomb and her bare feet shake.
2 Comments:
At 12:27 AM , Dave said...
Whoa. That's nice.
At 6:04 AM , Gwenda said...
Highly cool; my Dickinson is rusty. Need to pull out that volume and put it on the bedside table for awhile.
You know, I think this was the first one of your poems I read, Alan.
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