I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY - Chatty & Witty

Emily Dickinson Quietly Subverts the Ban

🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back.

Speech

I do not shout.
I do not rally.
I do not chant before crowds.

I write.

I write in corners.
I write between breaths.
I write in defiance of silence.

If they ban poetry,
I will hide it
in white dresses and folded paper
and the wings of bees.

Prose is a room.
Poetry is a house.
I choose the house
—even if the doors are locked.

Should they exile stanzas
to cold northern lands—
I shall warm them with hope.

A poem is a thing
no law can touch.

I dwell in possibility.
So must you.