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søndag 26. september 2010

Letting go

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
A wooden way
Of ground, or air, or ought,
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.


Tekst: "After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes" av Emily Dickinson

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