Monday, April 09, 2007

Within a Swoon

Today's Dickinsonian oracle:

There is a pain - so utter -
It swallows substance up -
Then covers the Abyss with Trance -
So Memory can step
Around - across - upon it -
As One within a Swoon -
Goes safely - where an open eye -
Would drop Him - Bone by Bone -
(E. Dickinson, 515)

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