The Butterfly's Assumption Gown
The Butterfly's Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on --
How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend In a New England Town --
Emily Dickinson
The Butterfly's Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on --
How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend In a New England Town --
Emily Dickinson catches a butterfly just as it sheds its old self. She turns the chrysalis into something quietly luxurious—"Chrysoprase Apartments," a jewel-toned chamber—and the new wings into an "Assumption Gown," a garment fit for a heavenly departure, hung ready until this very afternoon.
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