Sunday, May 15, 2022

Emily Dickinson Bog


It's been a long time since I posted here. The pandemic and the loss of some close relatives put me into a funk, one might even say dropped me into a bog, and I stopped writing for a while. So what better way to celebrate my modest return than this apropos poem by Emily Dickinson.

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!