Author: Jenny Torres Sanchez

Cites

• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, As lately as Today — I know it, by the numb look Such Houses have — alway — The Neighbors rustle in and out — The Doctor — drives away — A Window opens like a Pod — Abrupt — mechanically — Somebody flings a Mattress out — The Children hurry by — They wonder if It died — on that — I used to — when a Boy — The Minister — goes stiffly in — As if the House were His — And He owned all the Mourners — now — And little Boys — besides — And then the Milliner — and the Man Of the Appalling Trade — To take the measure of the House — There'll be that Dark Parade — Of Tassels — and of Coaches — soon — It's easy as a Sign — The Intuition of the News — In just a Country Town —
    FROM: #389, (1896), Poem, US