I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about …

Emily Dickinson
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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). Dickinson, p.369, Harvard University Press
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