There's been a death in the opposite house
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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There's been a death in the opposite house
lately as to-day.
I know it by the numb
Such houses have alway.
The neighbors rustle in out,
The doctor drives away.
A window opens a pod,
Abrupt, mechanically;
Somebody flings a mattress out, —
The children hurry by;
They wonder if died on that, —
I used to when boy.
The minister goes stiffly in
As if house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, the man
Of the appalling trade,
To take measure of the house.
There'll be that dark
Of tassels and of coaches soon;
It's easy a sign, —
The intuition of the news
just a country town.