‘She Was Less Like A Recluse, More Like A Bomb Going Off’ – The Real Emily Dickinson

“She was promiscuous in her own fashion, deceiving everyone around her with the sly masks she wore. She was faithful to no one but her dog. Her white dress was one more bit of camouflage, to safeguard the witchery of her craft. … Cotton Mather would have burned her for a witch.”