A Tooth upon Our Peace
A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface -- Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace --
The Heaven hath a Hell -- Itself to signalize -- And every sign before the Place Is Gilt with Sacrifice --
Emily Dickinson
A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface -- Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace --
The Heaven hath a Hell -- Itself to signalize -- And every sign before the Place Is Gilt with Sacrifice --
Emily Dickinson mulls over a strange little paradox: why does something sharp, a “tooth,” press on our peace if that peace can’t actually be ruined? The answer she gives isn’t comfort exactly, but a vivid, surprising logic — the ache exists to make the stillness more alive, to “vitalize the Grace.”…
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