EMILY DICKINSON’S DOG • by Pippa Little

‘a dog as large as myself that my father bought me’

 

 

I rode in the dust

to her white door,

given over

soul to soul

on first sight.

I laid my huge head across her lap.

 

Longest afternoons,

as sunlight

slips away,

I dream:

her hand be-stirs my ear. I am

each breath between her words.

 

Pippa Little has three collections, all of which can be ordered online direct from the presses :The Spar Box (Vane Women Press, vanewomen.co.uk), Foray (Biscuit Press, info@biscuitpublishing.com) and The Snow Globe (Red Squirrel Press, redsquirrelpress.com). Her next collection, Overwintering, from Oxford Poets/Carcanet, comes out on October 25th 2012 and is available to pre-order from Carcanet.co.uk.

She is Scots but now lives in Northumberland, North East England. She will be reading at the StAnza Poetry Festival in her home town, St Andrews, Fife, in mid-March this year.
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Posted on January 25, 2012 in Literary, Poems
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2 Responses to “EMILY DICKINSON’S DOG • by Pippa Little”


  1. marion Says:
    January 26th, 2012 at 1:40 am

    A great feeling of calm and contentment caputured here.

  2. Lois Kackley Says:
    January 27th, 2012 at 7:16 am

    Lovely poem and delightful tribute to Emily Dickinson’s dog!

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