Wing It

From our food editor, Verla Burrell-Bordelon:

WE POSTED THIS INFO A FEW WEEKS BACK ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY:

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!  Of course, we wouldn't have a Super Bowl with Emmett Lee Dickinson -- for details, click HERE (scroll down to the entry dated June 10).  Much more information (and additional poems) about the Dickinson/Super Bowl connection is included in our plog (poetry blog),  To access that information, click HERE.

In celebration of Super Bowl Sunday, we have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's now-classic poem about the Super Bowl, "Of this this Day's composed," as one of our Featured Poems of the Week (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "Of this is Day composed," our other featured poem (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Of this this Day’s composed
A first and second half
A Revelry unspeakable
And then a funny ad
The Teams advance each turn
With power and with drive
A Super Bowl of glory
Resplendently alive!

By Emily Dickinson:

Of this is Day composed
A morning and a noon
A Revelry unspeakable
And then a gay unknown
Whose Pomps allure and spurn
And dower and deprive
And penury for Glory
Remedilessly leave.

Of course, Emmett Lee Dickinson is also connected to the evolution of the Super Bowl buffet -- and what would a Super Bowl buffet be with out Buffalo wings (a favorite of Emily and Lavinia Dickinson)?  Therefore, we thought we'd post an additional poem today, Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Ferocious as a Fan without a wing" (below on the right).  This short poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen "Ferocious as a Bee without a wing" (below on the left).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Ferocious as a Fan without a wing
One Dipped in Honey and one Dipped
     in Sting*
So at the hour present the Dip to me

*Hot sauce

By Emily Dickinson:
 
Ferocious as a Bee without a wing
The Prince of Honey and the Prince
     of Sting
So plain a flower present her Disk to thee