A nearly empty glass hourglass stands upright on pale grey ground with a tiny golden grain at its narrow centre.

Original artwork, not a still

of all the souls that stand create

Emily Dickinson

when that which is and that which was -apart - intrinsic standand this brief tragedy of flesh is shifted like a sand

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This separately retained version contrasts present and past while making the tragedy of flesh as shifting as sand. Its run-together archive typography remains, and no actual death or further verse is supplied.

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