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Today’s Poem
There’s a certain slant of light,
Winter Afternoons —
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes —
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Today’s Poem

There’s a certain slant of light,
Winter Afternoons —
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes —

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us —
We can find no scar,
But internal difference —
Where the Meanings, are —

None may teach it — Any —
’Tis the seal Despair —
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air —

When it comes, the Landscape listens —
Shadows — hold their breath —
When it goes, ’tis like the Distance
On the look of Death —

Emily Dickinson
A winter meditation on despair — the slant of light that oppresses like cathedral music, leaving an “internal difference” no scar can show.
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