Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue --
The letting go
A Presence -- for an Expectation --
Not now --
The putting out of Eyes --
Just Sunrise --
Lest Day --
Day's Great Progenitor --
Outvie
Renunciation -- is the Choosing
Against itself --
Itself to justify
Unto itself --
When larger function --
Make that appear --
Smaller -- that Covered Vision -- Here --
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- No Matter—now—sweet
- The Martyr Poets—did Not Tell
- The Snow That Never Drifts
- Out Of Sight? What Of That?
- The Zeroes—taught Us—phosphorous