NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #8

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry.

This sunny day's Dickinsonian oracle:

Love - is that later Thing than Death -
More previous - than Life -
Confirms it at it's entrance - And
Usurps it - of itself -
(E. Dickinson, from 540)

The writing commandment:

Write a peom addressing the metaphysical "bookends" of life, that which comes before, and that which comes after. Give each end a name, say Pinky, or Buckle, and let the two ends of life meet one another for the first time. Forget the question you intially asked the oracle; it wasn't one with a clear answer, anyway.