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Dedication for a Plot of Ground - William Carlos Williams
Dedication for a Plot of Ground
This plot of ground
Facing the waters of this inlet
Is dedicated to the living presence of
Emily Dickinson Wellcome
Who was born in England
Married
Lost her husband and with
Her five year old son
Sailed for New York in a two-master
Was driven to the Azores
Ran adrift on Fire Island shoal
Met her second husband
In a Brooklyn boarding house
Went with him to Puerto Rico
Bore three more children
Lost her second husband lived hard
For eight years in St Thomas
Puerto Rico San Domingo followed
The oldest son to New York
Lost her daughter lost her baby
Seized the two boys of
The oldest son by the second marriage
Mothered them they being
Motherless fought for them
Against the other grandmother
And the aunts brought them here
Summer after summer defended
Herself here against thieves
Storms sun fire
Against flies against girls
That came smelling about
Against drought against weeds storm-tides
Neighbors weasels that stole her chickens
Against the weakness of her own hands
Against the growing strength of
The boys against wind against the stones
Against trespassers
Against rents against her own mind
She grubbed this earth with her own hands
Domineered over this grass plot
Blackguarded her oldest son
Into buying it
Lived here fifteen years
Attained a final loneliness
And if you can bring nothing to this place
But your carcass keep out
