A poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). It didn’t make Dr. Oliver Tearle’s “ten of the best” poems by her, HERE, but he surely had it in mind. The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, sent it out this week to promote a festival later in September. Tearle’s analysis is HERE. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —