Day 1... Secret Within A Secret

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Day 1... Secret Within A Secret
Day 1... Secret Within A Secret

I cannot live with You –
It would be Life –
And Life is over there –
Behind the Shelf


The Sexton keeps the Key to –
Putting up
Our Life – His Porcelain –
Like a Cup –


Discarded of the Housewife –
Quaint – or Broke –
A newer Sevres pleases –
Old Ones crack –


I could not die – with You –
For One must wait
To shut the Other’s Gaze down –
You – could not –


And I – could I stand by
And see You – freeze –
Without my Right of Frost –
Death’s privilege?


Nor could I rise – with You –
Because Your Face
Would put out Jesus’ –
That New Grace


Glow plain – and foreign
On my homesick Eye –
Except that You than He
Shone closer by –


They’d judge Us – How –
For You – served Heaven – You know,
Or sought to –
I could not –


Because You saturated Sight –
And I had no more Eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise


And were You lost, I would be –
Though My Name
Rang loudest
On the Heavenly fame –


And were You – saved –
And I – condemned to be
Where You were not –
That self – were Hell to Me –


So We must meet apart –
You there – I – here –
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are – and Prayer –
And that White Sustenance –
Despair –

J. 640
~ Emily Dickinson

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There actually is a 'Secret Within A Secret' in this photo composition. The pocket watch was a gift to my father. The photograph of the lady on the dial of the watch is that of a person who 'In Life' was like an *Angel* to my father. I own a ferrotype circa 1859 that was handed down in this ladies family... a "Secret Within A Secret"...

What magical secret do you see?

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Taken on: June 1, 2014
Sets appears in:   • Winter Count    • 30 DAYS OF MAGIC COLOR - CLARITY- COMPOSTION   
Camera: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, f/2.0, 1/30 sec, 10.5mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z
Aperture: f/2.0
Exposure Time: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length: 10.5mm
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Program AE
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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