I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY

I DWELL IN POSSIBILITYA PHOTO DATED 1860 BELIEVED TO BE EMILY DICKINSON.
This beautiful letter was sent to my husband’s Red Hand Files by Suzanne from New York. He read it to me and I print it here. We are both great lovers of Emily Dickinson. Thank you so much, Suzanne, for thinking of us. Love Susie. x


Dearest Nick:

Your Susie loves her poetry. Please read this one to her. So many times I’ve read this poem in the morning and it’s given me hope to receive the day as it unfolds itself in my hands.

I dwell in Possibility –

by Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –