Ceremonious, like tombs
Monday, June 23, 2014 at 04:44AM
Jennifer

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R e m e m b e r e d

Glenwood Cemetery

Tupelo, Mississippi

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs --
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round --
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought --
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone --

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First -- Chill -- then Stupor -- then the letting go -- 

= Emily Dickinson =

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Happy Monday
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