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I think reflections on sternutation work best in haiku.
In proper season,
one's thoughts on sternutation
work best in haiku.
Why archie, you're completely right!
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" I think reflections on sternutation work best in haiku." Why, bless you!  Tsyganka, whose hubba-hubba is a master of permutation of the sternutation
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Oh, Sweet WO'N, thank you, thank you! This verse makes all the difference in the world:
Or rather -- He passed Us --
The Dews drew quivering and chill --
For only Gossamer, my Gown --
My Tippet -- only Tulle--
Before, the line about passing the setting sun made no sense to me, as it was out of context with everything else in the poem. That is, it was the only line that went into fantasy. All else was real-world, except for 'tis centuries. I had to look up tippet. Oh, and that name, Lavinia. You never hear that any more, but my Aunt Mary had a friend named that, whom she mentioned often.
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LaviniaI just read a book, Random Passage, where the narrator's name is Lavinia. It's just been made into a TV mini-series of the same name (Random Passage, that is, not Lavinia!). 
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E. D. Called BackAfter logging-off the night I made the epitaph entry a question nagged at me as I prepared for sleep, because it didn't make sense, somehow, that such a long poem would be inscribed as the epitaph on a tombstone. Indeed, my suspicions bear out. Upon further research I confirmed that E. D. Called Back is the complete text of the epitaph inscribed on her tombstone (and is NOT, therefore, the original title of Because I Could Not Stop For Death): In 1884, Emily became ill with a kidney disease generically called "Bright's
Disease," and soon became bedridden. She died after lapsing into a coma on
May 15, 1886. Her tombstone epitaph contains the two words she sent in a
message to her cousins shortly before she died: "Called Back." http://www.allsands.com/Literature/emilydickinson_akh_gn.htmThe wording of the site previously cited was misleading, and seemed to point to the other conclusion. ( two sources!  ) The reference to an original text of the poem Because I Could Not Stop For Death is correct and accurate.
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FWIW, there's a newish book out on Emily: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger, Random House Oct 2001, ISBN: 0-679-44986-8.
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Fiberbabe, I was gonna ask how/why you would have such a link at your fingertips, and then decided against it  . All will be unveiled at Wordapalooza!, [damned puntuation marks] yes?
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>Do you suppose that specific subjects are best addressed in particular verse forms?
What do the board members think about the certain verse forms being specific to poets?
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I had posted this earlier - it got deleted somehow.
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