Saturday, February 25, 2006

Emily's Tulips





















photo by S. Auberle

Nature rarer uses yellow
than another hue;
saves she all of that for sunsets,
prodigal of blue.
Spending scarlet like a woman;
yellow she affords
only scantly and selectly,
like a lover's words.

-Emily Dickinson


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