"Best Witchcraft is Geometry"

"A spell cannot be tattered and mended like a coat,"
says Emily Dickinson.

They call them oracular sayings, those magical
puzzles ED wrote in her letters -- but I say also
that they are spells.

A web page with a rarely seen, most beautiful
collection of incantations by Emily Dickinson --
in the form of a delightful essay introduced
by her neice Martha Dickinson Bianchi and
published in 1915 -- is located at:

http://earlywomenmasters.net/essays/bianchi/

Line after line by ED puzzles the mind --
like scintillating, colorful quilt designs --

"Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind --
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind."

~Emily Dickinson

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