Friday, May 2, 2008

IF I WAS EMILY DICKINSON'S BOYFRIEND

I would call on you
at your parent's house in Amherst.
We would talk
of wanting God
but not quite believing,
of fear and despair,
joy and beauty.
And I would
revel at your soul
on display.
And if you died
before me
I would always have
your poems,
and any day
your soul would walk again.




Copyright 2008 David Elsey