• Caitlin Seida, "Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's A Sewer Rat"

  • Jul 30 2021
  • Length: 17 mins
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Caitlin Seida, "Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's A Sewer Rat"

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  • It takes a brave writer to lead the charge against Emily Dickinson. Especially in my books! You know how much I love Dickinson. But I may love Caitlin Seida's riff off a famous Dickinson poem just as much.

    This poem became something of my mantra when I was recently in Texas for a month, helping my dad die. I had no idea I'd do what I did. I didn't even know he was that sick. He went over a cliff and took me with him. I used lines from this poem over and over again to help me get up off the couch and go give him his next round of pain or nausea meds.

    I hope you'll find the audacity in this poem as compelling as I do. And I hope you'll understand that hope lasts, like a sewer rat. It survives in the worst places. Because that's the very nature of hope.
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