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(26,487 posts) Wed Oct 7, 2020, 11:26 PM Oct 2020

Wire - "I Am the Fly"

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Emily Dickinson..... JustFiveMoreMinutes Oct 2020 #1

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1. Emily Dickinson.....

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Thu Oct 8, 2020, 12:37 AM

Oct 2020

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)
BY EMILY DICKINSON

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -

The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset - when the King
Be witnessed - in the Room -

I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly -

With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - and me -
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see -

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