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Emily Dickinson’s Dashes


04.22.19 Posted in today's words by

Michael T. Smith lives and writes in LaFayette, Indiana. 

Emily Dickinson’s Dashes
By Michael T. Smith

I mean – oh my – “He aven”
God! Have you read a poem by –
Emily Dickinson?  It’s like she’s the almighty

Typographer.  With dashes more important than
Punctuation – or word choice.  She –
Clearly one without an autoformat –
Just went nothing but nuts—

With the dashes, I mean – not
Her — actual — mental illness –
These lines, these –
Are like giggles, filling a page madly –
A page that never really ends –



One Response to “Emily Dickinson’s Dashes”

  1. Now, I have to go see some of Emily’s work. lol

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