if e.e. c and Emily D.

birthed a son

surely be He

a radiating

Man of the Future

eclipsed

born out

to mom 1909

with glass eye

ivoried teeth

and peg leg

besides--

daddy

barely

fifteen

a shade

of a lad

--Either

enamored so

or mortally blind

to take hold

and spinster

'em for a ride.

love and leave

for who'd

believe

'er

claim at 79

to have

life New

inside... ? ? ?

still a child

poem

never spoken of

unnamed, like

so many a verse

by e.e. cummings :

& Emily Dickenson