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Minnesota Poetry: Tim Brennan's "dreaming of Emily Dickinson"

Posted at 10:07 AM on April 12, 2010 by Marianne Combs
Filed under: Minnesota Poets, Poetry

Tim Brennan lives in Austin with wife Jaci and sons Alex & Max. He has taught secondary English for 25 years and his poetry has appeared in several journals. Brennan's poem "dreaming of Emily Dickinson" was selected for What Light, a poetry anthology put out by mnartists.org

dreaming of Emily Dickinson

i sometimes dream
of Emily Dickinson,
her seemingly stoic
allegories
speaking of lost love:

flies buzzing, yellow halos,
unblossomed thighs,
apple orchards,
new shoes in Eden

secretly, she was a woman
i once loved even though
she didn't know,
wouldn't acknowledge,
wouldn't have known what
to do even if she had known

she was my home town,
all my favorite places
walkin in her streets,
elm lined
lovers' lanes

i would have died for her Beauty,
instead i died for her Truth

today i saw a woman

who reminded me of her

i wanted to tell her
it was she who touched
my face and found me there

- "dreaming of Emily Dickinson" by Tim J Brennan as published in What Light: A poetry anthology from mnartists.org. Printed here with permission from the publisher.