To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover and a bee.
And revery
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson called her poems blossoms of the brain. More than a third of her poems and half her letters reference flowers. In addition to writing one of her passions was creating herbariums, a systematically arranged collection of dried plants.  Pictured is a sampling from the Earthen Door, a photographic re-working of her herbarium. It was created by Dr. Kyra Krakos (and students) and Peter Grima. This show is on display in the Sachs Museum, at the Missouri botanical gardens. In a letter she once wrote, “The career of flowers differ from ours only in audibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense of transport may surpass our own.”