The Products of my Farm are these 1
Sufficient for my Own
And here and there a Benefit
Unto a Neighbor's Bin.
With Us, 'tis Harvest all the Year 5
For when the Frosts begin
We just reverse the Zodiac
And fetch the Acres in.
Sufficient for my Own
And here and there a Benefit
Unto a Neighbor's Bin.
With Us, 'tis Harvest all the Year 5
For when the Frosts begin
We just reverse the Zodiac
And fetch the Acres in.
(F.1036/J.1025)
[1] Products:: poems in pieces of paper by Dickinson.
[2] my Own:: Dickinson kept enough for herself.
[3] Benefit:: a favor, to her neighboring friends.
[4] Bin:: a large receptacle.
[5] Us:: Dickinson and her readers.
[6] Frosts:: frigid, cold feelings abour her poems.
[7] Zodiac:: recurrent series, round, course (OED 3b), of her poems. reverse the Zodiac:: to alter the reading of her poems to the opposite direction; not to follow the natural way.
[8] Acres:: large quantities (OED 2b). fetch, in:: to catch other meanings of her poems greatly.
