Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Estop

estovers; estreat; estrone; estuary; esurient; etamine; etaoin shrdlu

And the Dickinsonian oracle:

Empty my Heart, of Thee -
It's single Artery -
Begin, and leave Thee out -
Simply Extinction's Date -

Much Billow hath the Sea -
One Baltic - They -
Subtract Thyself, in play,
And not enough of me
Is left - to put away -
"Myself" meant Thee -

Erase the Root - no Tree -
Thee - then - no me -
The Heavens stripped -
Eternity's vast pocket, picked.
(E Dickinson, 393)

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