
Wanneer in de tuin van mijn ouders de daglelies bloeien, denk ik aan het plezierige ogenblik waarop ik ontdekte dat deze hemerocallis de lievelingsbloem was van de Amerikaanse dichteres Emily Dickinson. Met dank aan het prachtige boek van Judith Farr, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (2004).
It bloomed and dropt, a single Noon
The flower – distinct and Red –
I, passing, thought another Noon
Another in its stead
Will equal glow, and thought no More
But came another Day
To find the Species disappeared –
The same Locality –
The Sun in place – no other fraud
On Nature’s perfect Sum –
Had I but lingered yesterday –
Was my retrieveless Blame –
Much Flowers of this and further Zones
Have perished in my Hands
For seeking its Resemblance –
But unapproached it stands
The single Flower of the Earth
That I, in passing by
Unconscious was – Great Nature’s Face
Passed infinite by Me –





