Sixty Two

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This week, from Emily, the straightforward but profound 1212 (as before, in the 1955 TH Johnson numbering).

1212

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

I approach delirium thinking of all the words Emily Dickinson has written, and how many people might have read them, and what meanings and thoughts and associations might have passed through their minds as they did so.

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