The Revolutionary Experience of Emily Dickenson

Great name for a band, isn't it? I'm going to put together a band that only covers 80s songs and does it with instruments like the dulcimer. We'll be The Revolutionary Experience of Emily Dickenson, as an ode to both Prince and Jimi Hendrix and the English Department.

An Emily Dickenson poem I like:

Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink
And shadows tremble so?

And nobody knows, so still it flows,
That any brook is there;
And yet your little draught of life
Is daily drunken there.

Then look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come hurrying over the hills,
And the bridges often go.

And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows parching lie,
Beware lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!




For all those with a little brook in their hearts.

-- DV