Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COLOR - CASTE - DENOMINATION, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: Our minuter intuitions - %deem unplausible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 970; Poem: 83


Color - Caste - Denomination -
These - are Time's Affair -
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are -


As in sleep - All Hue forgotten -
Tenets - put behind -
Death's large - Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand -


If Circassian - He is careless -
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde - or Umber -
Equal Butterfly -


They emerge from His Obscuring -
What Death - knows so well -
Our minuter intuitions -
Deem unplausible -






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