The way I read a letter's this

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

      'T is first I lock the door,

And push it with my fingers next,

For transport it be sure.


And then I go the furthest off

To counteract a knock;

Then draw my little letter forth

And softly pick its lock.


Then, glancing narrow at the wall,

And narrow at the floor,

For firm conviction of a mouse

Not exorcised before,


Peruse how infinite I am

To—no one that you know!

And sigh for lack of heaven,—but not

The heaven the creeds bestow.

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