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Emily Dickinson: I am afraid to own a Body
I am afraid to own a Body—
I am afraid to own a Soul—
Profound—precarious Property—
Possession, not optional—
Double Estate—entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir—
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.
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“And God, for a frontier”❤️!
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E.D.’s slippery bipartite irony weaves though this poem.
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Yes, slippery logic, beautiful language. I find her poems hypnotizing.
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