![]() White as bone, it lacks the chlorophyll by which other plants capture photons and turn light into sugar for life. Monotropa uniflora, known as ghost pipe, is unlike the vast majority of plants on Earth. ![]() She considered it “the preferred flower of life.” Beneath the gilded title was a flower painting by Mabel Loomis Todd - the complicated woman chiefly responsible for editing and publishing Dickinson’s poems and letters.Īny flower would have been a fitting emblem for the poet who spent her life believing that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” but none more than this one - a flower she had collected in the woods of Amherst as “a wondering Child,” then pressed into her teenage herbarium and into her poems, enchanted by its “almost supernatural” appearance. In the late autumn of 1890, four years after Emily Dickinson’s death, her poems met the world for the first time in a handsome volume bound in white.
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