Rev. Marti Keller

The heart of my vocational life is to bear authentic and courageous witness.

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For Emily: Who Also Loved Horticulture

© August 2017 Marti Keller

Marti had the opportunity to preach at St. Marks Unitarian Church in Edinbourgh Scotland in July. Her topic was Emily Dickinson as a (small) unitarian 19th-century non-believer. She also led a poetry discusson group around the work of Emily Dickinson, including her later life envelope poems.

You loved what was left for you,

Lilacs and raspberries,

You raised hothouse flowers, fruits

Out of climate,

Managed the land between the front door

And cedar border.

The back garden was yours, the greenhouse

And the air

On certain Sabbaths when you stayed behind

With the wrens and the roses.