The September word for my prompt challenge group was “derived.” I decided to look at the definition “originate; come or descend from” and work on some ideas for my artist in a matchbox series. This is the first one, based on Emily Dickinson, the mid-19th century American poet. She didn’t publish much during her lifetime, and when she died, her sister found hundreds of poems in Dickinson’s bedroom desk. Some were copied neatly into little pamphlets, but many were written on scraps of paper, old envelopes, as well as the margins of letters and newspapers. My little box contains all those things.
