On Recollecting

These songs were commissioned by the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, MA, in honor of Ruth Lloyd Black, their co-founder. Emily Dickinson has her tongue firmly in her cheek in these poems. There is serious purpose under the lyrics, but the surface is pure word-play. She juggles the terms “forgetting” and “recollecting” in each poem until they almost take each other”s meaning.