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There is a painso utter
It swallows substance up
Then covers the Abyss with Trance
So memory can stepAroundacrossupon it
As one with a Swoon
Goes safelywhere an open eye
Would drop HimBone by Bone.
Emily Dickinson
Introduction and selection copyright © 1996 by Joyce Carol Oates.
The Essential Dickinson
Selected and with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
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