![Poetry. Hole by Nancy Iannucci. Image: the word 'hole' with the letter 'o' entirely blacked out.](https://eggplusfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NANCY-IANNUCCI-1024x649.png)
Hole
What would Emily say
if she could see
the movie adaptations of
Wuthering Heights?
Would she think
Hardy was the proper
Heathcliff, more so
than Fiennes or
Dalton? Would she
accept Emma Mackey’s
portrayal of her in
Emily? I wonder what
she would think of Kate
Bush yowling on the
moors in a red dress.
What would she do if
she knew that one of
her poems was read at
Emily Dickinson’s
funeral, but that her
dog was named Carlo in
homage to her sister’s
novel? Would she care
if we knew Ellis Bell was
bullshit? Would she tell
Harold Bloom to fuck
off, he’s nowhere near
what I was thinking?
Nowhere near!
She had a temper.
What advice would she
give writers? Emily
Brontë On Writing.
Chapter 1: Let your
thoughts pour out
wild and selfishly!
Oh, and exercise helps
tremendously. Walking
around your writing table
a few times will do the
trick. I tend to lose
my way around the
table like Cathy on the
moors. It gets ever so
dark, wind howling, I
can’t think, and in that
moment, I open Emily,
and like a rope, her
little ice-cold hand pulls
me out of this hole.
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Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Nancy Byrne Iannucci lives in Troy, New York with her two cats, Nash and Emily Dickinson.
Nancy is published widely in poetry journals, and she is the author of three chapbooks: Temptation of Wood (Nixes Mate Review, 2018), Goblin Fruit (Impspired, 2021), and Primitive Prayer (Plan B Press, fall 2022).
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