Writings by Susan Dickinson


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H ST22d


 The overtakelessness of those
Who have accomplished Death
Majestic is to me beyond
The majesties of Earth

The soul her "not at Home"
Inscribes upon the flesh
And takes her fine aerial gait
Beyond the hope X of touch
E.


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