I hear that Emily Dickinson
Wrote poems by the scores
While living a reclusive life
Cloistered and indoors
To me this isn't odd at all
Not unusual, but familiar
It just leaves a couple of questions
Begging for an answer
To "the-chicken-or-the-egg" debate
These questions are akin
Which came first is a mystery
We explore again and again
Is it that to be a bard
Means also to be a hermit
Or is it that she was a recluse
That she was a brilliant poet?
February 2015
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