Friday, November 12, 2021

a handwriting so peculiar 11.12.2021





Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
April 16, 1862: I took [Emily Dickinson's letter of the previous day] from the post office in Worcester, Mass., where I was then living. It was postmarked "Amherst," and it was in a handwriting so peculiar that it seemed as if the writer might have taken her first lessons by studying the famous fossil bird-tracks in the museum of that college town. 

yes, a hundred years ago, two hundred years ago 12.10.2021

a thundering ear ago, two hungry ears ego eyes, yes, an egg