This begins like a call and response and turns into a round and then closes with a synoptic clincher.
Answer July –
Where is the Bee –
Where is the Blush –
Where is the Hay?Ah, said July –
Where is the Seed –
Where is the Bud –
Where is the May –
Answer Thee – Me –Nay – said the May –
Show me the Snow –
Show me the Bells –
Show me the Jay!Quibbled the Jay –
Where be the Maize –
Where be the Haze –
Where be the Bur?
Here – said the Year –
Emily Dickinson varies the verbs in the questions and thereby conditions the move out of time to view the whole cycle. Each of the three initial stanzas has a single speaker. The last stanza has two. And the one last voice has only one line — adding a curt aspect to its decisiveness.
And so for day 2076
19.08.2012