When Memory is full
When Memory is full Put on the perfect Lid -- This Morning's finest syllable Presumptuous Evening said --
Emily Dickinson
When Memory is full Put on the perfect Lid -- This Morning's finest syllable Presumptuous Evening said --
Dickinson imagines memory as a container that, when full, needs a perfect lid. That lid might be a single crystalline syllable from the morning—a word or note that holds everything in place. But then evening, presumptuously, says that same syllable.
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