Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Emily Posts - A Violin In Baize Replaced

Monday, March 31, 2014

Karen Gerbrecht, Sunday March 30, 2014 Fuji Instant FP-100C

One of my most singular pleasures in the last few years is the discovery that I can mate some of my photographs to the poems of my favourite poets, Jorge Luís Borges, Homero Aridjis, William Shakespeare (especially the Dark Lady of the Sonnets) and Emily Dickinson. Of the latter I have posted frequently in the last couple of years since I read Jerome Charyn's The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson - Novel. I first wrote about it here. Then I cross-referenced some of those blogs with the fact that Charyn then wroteI Am Abraham. I wrote lots about this novel because like The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson it is an unusual novel, what I call a first person autobiographical novel. Below are all the links to things Emily Dickinson to date.

The first two links are to photographs of the extremely beautiful Karen Kerbrecht who plays the violin in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. I knew that Dickinson had written at least three poems which include the violin. Here is the third so that I can justify posting one more picture of Karen Gerbrecht, one I took yesterday.

Like Some Old fashioned Miracle

When Summertime is done –

Seems Summer’s Recollection

And the Affairs of June

As infinite Tradition

As Cinderella’s Bays –

Or Little John — of Lincoln Green –

Or Blue Beard’s Galleries –

Her Bees have a fictitious Hum –

Her Blossoms, like a Dream –

Elate us — till we almost weep –

So plausible — they seem –