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On Magnificat Sunday, a small thing: a poem inspired by another young woman who was surprised by joy in unexpected places.
Blessin's, --Tom
TO SEE NEW ENGLANDLY
after Emily Dickinson
A book of pressed flow’rs,
a Maid’s dearest toy
is—'freshingly—a doorway
into secret Joy—
that desire whose fulfillment
is Yearning, far
greater than Pleasure,
distant—as a Star
and near as the budding
of a violet
in a girl’s Garden—unfolding
into Yet—
Poem © 2019 by Tom Emanuel