"I dwell in Possibility"

Henri de Braekeleer, The chimes (1874, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antuérpia)

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I dwell in Possibility

I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –

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Emily Dickinson (via Poetry Foundation)