One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted

Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted
One need not be a house
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place

Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost
Than internally confronting
That cooler host.

Far safer, through an abbey gallop,
The stones a’chase
Than unarmed, one’s own self encounter,
In a lonesome place

Ourself behind ourself, concealed,
Should startle most
Assassin hid in our apartment
Be horror’s least.

The body carries a revolver,
He bolts the door
O’erlooking a superior spectre
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