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Pat Maginess: Private-Eye

Hard Shelled Detective Fiction by Edward Piercy

Cool Us to Shafts of Granite

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[2001 -- 9/11 -- 2006]


We dream -- it is good we are dreaming --
It would hurt us -- were we awake --
But since it is playing -- kill us,
And we are playing -- shriek --

What harm? Men die -- externally --
It is a truth -- of Blood --
But we -- are dying in Drama --
And Drama -- is never dead --

Cautious -- We jar each other --
And either -- open the eyes --
Lest the Phantasm -- prove the Mistake --
And the livid Surprise.

Cool us to Shafts of Granite --
With just an Age -- and Name --
And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian --
It's prudenter -- to dream.


-- Emily Dickinson (Johnson: 531)


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Comments

j.leigh 2. September 2006, 22:20

WOW! what an extremely moving picture. One of the best I've seen

Koma Wing 5. September 2006, 13:25

the world become cool
:worried:
Koma

wickedlizard 11. September 2006, 22:15

great photo... very heart rending... :frown:

ellinidata 11. September 2008, 21:07

:heart: +

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