Spirits and feathers

Read about a terrific and fascinating women in a terrific and fascinating article written by terrific and fascinating you know who. It's in this current issue of Minnesota Women's Press

And the Dickinsonian oracle adds:

If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying"
Bury - me, in such a shroud of red!
If this is "sleep,"
On such a night
How proud to shut the eye!
Good evening, gentle Fellow men!
Peacock presumes to die!
(E. Dickisnson, 119)