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All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

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She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe angels must have spied,Since I could never find herUpon the mortal side.

~ Emily Dickinson

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Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labour, and my leisure too,For his civility.We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun.We paused before a house that seemedA swelling of the ground;The roof was scarcely visible,The cornice but a mound.Since then 'tis centuries; but eachFeels shorter than the dayI first surmised the horses' headsWere toward eternity.

~ Emily Dickinson

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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through – And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum – Kept beating – beating – till I thoughtMy Mind was going numb – And then I heard them lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space – began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here – And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing – then –

~ Emily Dickinson

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Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.

~ Emily Dickinson

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Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreamsplay when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in thedarkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

Did Bach ever eatpancakes at midnight?

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is there that my stomach leaps into my throat. Squatting just shy of the light and partially concealed by the shade of an alley is a sinister silhouette beneath a crimson cowl, beaming a demonic smile which spans from cheek to swollen cheek.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what youshould name it.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Nathan Reese Maher Abandoned Amnesia Androids Apocalypse Carrack Cityisle Cityspire Count Damnation Death Desolate Dreams Emily Dickinson Empty Fedora Ghosts Gothic Greek Mythology Haunting Haunts Horace Walpole Jazz Life Magic Magick Mannequins Masquerade Music Phillip K Dick Piano Poems Puddles Rain Reflections Romance Sacrifice Science Fiction Sex Shakespeare Ships Songs Specters Spectre Storms Tempest Waking Water

They call each other `E.’ Elvis pickswildflowers near the river and bringsthem to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him.In heaven Emily wears her hair long, sportsLevis and western blouses with rhinestones.Elvis is lean again, wears baggy trousersand T-shirts, a letterman’s jacket from Tupelo High.They take long walks and often hold hands.She prefers they remain just friends. Forever.Emily’s poems now contain naugahyde, Cadillacs,Electricity, jets, TV, Little Richard and RichardNixon. The rock-a-billy rhythm makes her smile.Elvis likes himself with style. This afternoonhe will play guitar and sing “I Taste A LiquorNever Brewed” to the tune of “Love Me Tender.”Emily will clap and harmonize. Alonein their cabins later, they’ll listen to the riverand nap. They will not think of Amherstor Las Vegas. They know why God made themroommates. It’s because Americawas their hometown. It’s becauseGod is a thing withoutfeathers. It’s becauseGod wears blue suede shoes.

~ Hans Ostrom

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Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

~ Jerome Charyn

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Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a Diver - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest.

~ Emily Dickinson

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Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

~ Don Roff

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

~ Emily Dickinson

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There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.

~ Emily Dickinson

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For Dickinson as part of a middle-class community anxious about female creativity, self-assertion, self-expression, and egoism, Shakespeare and Stratford may have been emblems appropriate to her own task as a writer: to achieve literary renown but also authorial disappearance.

~ Paraic Finnerty

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Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.

~ Suzanne Supplee

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