Showing posts with label Wendy Cope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendy Cope. Show all posts

Monday, 12 April 2010

Birthday Wishes across the Atlantic


This post is for our eldest daughter who is 22 today. She's studying in the US of A for a year and she's a bit of an Emily Dickinson fan! Wendy Cope is also excellent!


Emily Dickinson


Higgledy-piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes
Instead of full stops.
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasy,
Critics and editors
Send for the cops.
Wendy Cope
from 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' (Faber)
Happy Birthday Nell!