This collection of deeply collaborative poems from Flower Conroy and Donna Spruijt-Metz began when the poets were gently, and then not so gently, editing one another’s poems. Then Flower made a list of last lines of Emily Dickinson poems. She thought they would make beguiling titles—and so they began to work on “Emily” poems—exchange them with each other. They passed the poems back and forth so often that it was often unclear to either of us who wrote what. Returning to these Emily poems after a brief interlude, they were bewildered by how unfamiliar the pieces had become; a line one believed they wrote curled like an unfurled fern leaf unto itself, a muddled melding of their voices (muddled, as in a mud from which eerie stems stake forth, thorned, petaled or gilled and capped) until who could be sure where one hand began and the other took over?
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