I am alive - I guess - The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory - And at my finger's end - The Carmine - tingles warm - And if I hold a Glass Across my Mouth - it blurs it - Physician's - proof of Breath -
I am alive - because I am not in a Room - The Parlor - Commonly - it is - So Visitors may come -
And lean - and view it sidewise - And add "How cold - it grew" - And "Was it conscious - when it stepped In Immortality? "
I am alive - because I do not own a House - Entitled to myself - precise - And fitting no one else -
And marked my Girlhood's name - So Visitors may know Which Door is mine - and not not mistake - And try another Key -
How good - to be alive! How infinite - to be Alive - two-fold - The Birth I had - And this - besides, in Thee!
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