Thursday, December 5, 2024

Real


 REAL.

Emily Dickinson


I like a look of agony,

   Because I know it's true;

Men do not sham convulsion,

   Nor simulate a throe.

The eyes glaze once, and 

that is death.

   Impossible to feign

The beads upon the forehead

   By homely anguish strung.


Gar Glare

Photo by John Stokes

Alligator Lake

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