while I am Emily

Show me Eternity, and I will show you Memory -

Both in one package lain

And lifted back again -

Be Sue - while I am Emily -

Be next - what you have ever been - Infinity -

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Parting is one of the exactions

of a Mortal Life.

It is bleak - like Dying

but occurs more times.

To escape the former,

some invite the last.

The Giant in the Human Heart

was never met outside.

~ Emily Dickinson

from New poems of Emily Dickinson

art by Fabrizio Cassetta

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