a double dose of emily

emily town by anne carson (one of my favourite poets. ever.)

"Riches in a little room."

Is a phrase that haunts.

Her since the voltage of you.

Left.

Snow or a library.

Or a band of angels.

With a message is.

Not what.

It meant to.

Her.

and my choice of companion poem, by emily dickinson.

I died for beauty, but was scarce

Adjusted in the tomb,

When one who died for truth was lain

In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?

"for beauty," I replied.

"And I for truth,--the two are one;

We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,

We talked between the rooms,

Until the moss had reached our lips,

And covered up our names.

Carson, Anne. "Emily Town" The Best American Poetry 1990. Don Mills: Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc., 1990.

Dickinson, Emily. "I died for beauty" Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1993.