199 I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that— That other state— I’m Czar—I’m “Woman” now— It’s safer so—

Part One: Life LIV EXPERIMENT to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel?

824 [first version] The Wind begun to knead the Grass… As Women do a Dough— He flung a Hand full at the Plain…

843 I made slow Riches but my Gain Was steady as the Sun And every Night, it numbered more Than the preceding One

269 Bound—a trouble— And lives can bear it! Limit—how deep a bleeding go! So—many—drops—of vital scarlet—

803 Who Court obtain within Himself Sees every Man a King— And Poverty of Monarchy Is an interior thing—

954 The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust—

I cannot live with You— It would be Life— And Life is over there— Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to—

There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin,

999 Superfluous were the Sun When Excellence be dead He were superfluous every Day For every Day be said

598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.