I breathed enough to learn the trick
by Emily Dickinson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
XLI.
IBREATHED enough to learn the trick,
And now, removed from air,
I simulate the breath so well,
That one, to be quite sure
The lungs are stirless, must descend
Among the cunning cells,
And touch the pantomime himself.
How cool the bellows feels!