On a Columnar Self -
How ample to rely
In Tumult - or Extremity -
How good the Certainty
That Lever cannot pry -
And Wedge cannot divide
Conviction - That Granitic Base -
Though none be on our side -
Suffice Us - for a Crowd -
Ourself - and Rectitude -
And that Assembly - not far off
From furthest Spirit - God -
Helen Vendler
Dickinson
Selected Poems
and Commentaries
Emily Dickinson
740
Harvard University Press, 2010©
Akira Gomi
Rena Murakami
gelatin silver print
1989
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