{"id":1896,"date":"2011-08-19T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2011-08-19T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:01:45","slug":"forever-is-composed-of-nows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2011\/08\/forever-is-composed-of-nows\/","title":{"rendered":"“Forever — is composed of Nows”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We have a new poem, dear memorizing friends.<\/p>\n

I know you always think I\u2019ve forgotten. But I really haven\u2019t. I\u2019m just waiting and thinking. (Or, more likely, distracted by everything else in my\u00a0life\u00a0that\u2019s not poetry.)<\/p>\n

Did you know that I love Emily Dickinson? I love her for being so very weird. I love her freaky white dress<\/a> she wore as a \u201crecluse\u201d and the\u00a0apocryphal\u00a0treats she lowered to children in a basket<\/a> from her window when she was a bit too anxious to leave her room. I love her for writing lovely letters to men whom she hardly met in real life because she wouldn\u2019t leave Amherst and for calling her romantic(?) interest who lived in Philadelphia, \u201cMy Philadelphia<\/a>.\u201d (Secret: I\u2019ve been known to use that phrase for my own Philly-native-hubs). I love her for the dashes all over her poems that most would say look ugly but in reality are the perfect valleys of the lines, the unsaid part that holds the key to what is underneath her words. And I love her for her killer first lines:<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt a Funeral in my Brain<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBlazing in gold and quenching in purple<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBring me the sunset in a cup<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDare you see a soul at the white heat?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEden is that old-fashioned House<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAn everywhere of silver<\/a>\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could go on and on\u2026<\/p>\n

So why did I choose this poem when there are hundreds of Dickinson poems for our minds to fix themselves on? Honestly, I just feel drawn to these words. It feels like words I want to say to myself when my kids are screaming and I\u2019m crying and I wish I had friends.<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

Forever \u2013 is composed of Nows \u2013 (690)<\/h3>\n

by Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n

Forever \u2013 is composed of Nows \u2013
\n\u2018Tis not a different time \u2013
\nExcept for Infiniteness \u2013
\nAnd Latitude of Home \u2013<\/p>\n

From this \u2013 experienced Here \u2013
\nRemove the Dates \u2013 to These \u2013
\nLet Months dissolve in further Months \u2013
\nAnd Years \u2013 exhale in Years \u2013<\/p>\n

Without Debate \u2013 or Pause \u2013
\nOr Celebrated Days \u2013
\nNo different Our Years would be
\nFrom Anno Dominies \u2013<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cForever \u2014 is composed of Nows.\u201d All these sweet and frantic nows that only exist in this moment. What does she mean by \u201ca Latitude of Home\u201d? I don\u2019t know but I can\u2019t stop thinking about it and I think it\u2019s something good.<\/p>\n

Will you think about home<\/em> and now<\/em> and all those dashes with me and we\u2019ll figure it out?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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