Emily Dickinson's Poems

OF all the souls that stand create
I have elected one.
When sense from spirit files away,
And subterfuge is done;

When that which is and that which was 5
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;

When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away,— 10
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!


HE touched me, so I live to know
That such a day, permitted so,
I groped upon his breast.
It was a boundless place to me,
And silenced, as the awful sea 5
Puts minor streams to rest.

And now, I ’m different from before,
As if I breathed superior air,
Or brushed a royal gown;
My feet, too, that had wandered so, 10
My gypsy face transfigured now
To tenderer renown.

思念 Si Nian

"Field [田]over heart [心] means remember,"
Writes Kimiko Hahn (CAP 178)
What about Nian [念}]
Can we say "Today [今] over heart means remember," too?

Really really Si is nothing than
Fill your heart with memories of a closed world that
You do not remember there is an outside that knows no boundaries

Nian is to let today weigh so much on your heart that you forget
There is something called succession.

Succession? Succession?

Drop the heart,and you win the day.

Parallel Lines

What would you say if we
Remain two parallel lines
Never crossing we stay in each other’s view
Point blank, heart to heart?

No, No, No, you say
It is cruel.

Yes, yes, I agree
I know that longing
Love’s magic power of drawing
Two lines to melt in hearts’ popping

But you know and me and then
And then no more no more
Happily ever after we shall see
White despair in between
And yet a moth I’d like to
Be in your light and die.