Why Is Some #Poetry So Hard to Understand?

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I have two Most Favorite (“secular”) authors.

One writes fiction, the other wrote poetry.

Some might say the poet wrote fiction…

C. J. Cherryhis my Most Favorite fiction author—and, she can be very hard for some folks to understand…

Emily Dickinson is my Most Favorite poet—and, she can be very hard for some folks to understand…

I find her much harder to understand than Cherryh—yet, I read her, over and over…

If you should try to read her poetry, do, if at all possibl...