Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

And Revery

To make a prairie, says Emily Dickinson, you need one clover and one bee. (Also, to be frank today, some seed mixes.)

Link to the ED poem has a parenthetical 1755 in title, which has led to at least one person on Facebook saying the poem was written in 1755, which would be remarkable since ED wasn’t born until 1830. I thought it might be the poem number, but confusingly the ED museum has 1779 in title. (But then, the poetry we know as hers has been much edited and formatted by others.)

BTW, did you know that Miss Dickinson is in bondage at Harvard University? The Library of America is notable for not having a volume or volumes dedicated to Dickinson because Harvard owns the rights.

One response to “And Revery”

  1. Revery alone will do if bees are few.

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