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.