Comments on: Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers Opens Today http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2010/04/exhibit-news/emily-dickinson%e2%80%99s-garden-opens-today/ The Blog of The New York Botanical Garden Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Michele Krueger http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2010/04/exhibit-news/emily-dickinson%e2%80%99s-garden-opens-today/comment-page-1/#comment-6514 Michele Krueger Sat, 01 May 2010 01:09:51 +0000 http://www.nybg.org/wordpress/?p=5884#comment-6514 In honor of Poem In Your Pocket Day, and Emily Dickinson’s Garden, I offer a poem I wrote about visiting the Enid Haupt Conservatory as a young adult-

The Botanical Gardens Greenhouse

In the foulest New York weather
on a gloomy Saturday-
I ran off to my secret place-
to swoon the time away.

I listened to bright jungle birds,
saw steamy moist air rise-
alone and meditating
in my tropical disguise.

Tall palm fronds came to know me
when the winter winds blew hard.
I wrote love poems upon them-
their native Bronx-born bard.

The Botanical Gardens Greenhouse
made me warmer than words can say-
when I went there alone and lonely
and came home Religious that day.

Michele Krueger

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