The Mind
Pain expands the time,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
Pain expands the time,
Ages coil within
The minute circumference
Of a single brain.
Pain contracts the time
Occupied with shot
Triplets of eternities
Are as they were not.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Pain expands the time.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/563/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Pain expands the time.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/563/.
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