Wednesday, June 17, 2009


Some winter mornings, when I walk to work, I let myself imagine for a moment that it is summer, there are no crusted mounds of snow to scale to gain access to the sidewalks, there is no screeching keening wind, I am not wearing heavy boots but soft flats with no socks...it is in fact a perfect summer morning.
Like this morning. It's actually hard to concentrate - fortunately all copy is in and we're waiting now for our proofs, so it's OK if we're Googling "Famous Poems About Summer" and reading:



Emily Dickinson
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A something in a summer’s Day
As slow her flambeaux burn away
Which solemnizes me.

A something in a summer’s noon —
A depth — an Azure — a perfume —
Transcending ecstasy.

And still within a summer’s night
A something so transporting bright
I clap my hands to see —

Then veil my too inspecting face
Lets such a subtle — shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me —

The wizard fingers never rest —
The purple brook within the breast
Still chafes it narrow bed —

Still rears the East her amber Flag —
Guides still the sun along the Crag
His Caravan of Red —

So looking on — the night — the morn
Conclude the wonder gay —
And I meet, coming thro’ the dews
Another summer’s Day!


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