“What matters is how a poem resonates for you.” What must it have been like to capture these thoughts on paper? Like trapping fireflies, I think.
I know what it is to carry mixed feelings in the marrow of your bones. To feel shackled to the past even though it’s populated by ghosts.
She isn't sure exactly what Emily Dickinson means but she knows what it is to be tied down. Baker Kline tells the tale of Anna Christina Olson who was made famous by Andrew Wyeth's landmark painting 'Christina's World' as she imagines it, likely limited by convention, disability, and the landscape she found herself in.