The prompt for this day was to take an unfamiliar-to-me Dickinson poem, remove all punctuation and line breaks, then rebreak the lines, adding or subtracting words to make a new poem. I tried messing with the line breaks, but I didn't like it, so they mostly stayed true to the original. I did however change some words to alter the cause and effect a bit, and in my humble opinion, improve the rhyme (sorry, Emily). Here is my edited version of "A not admitting of the wound" by Emily Dickinson: A not admitting of the wound -
It therefore grew so wide That all my Life within it dwelt, No more to be denied. A closing of the hinge-less lid I temporary bound Until the tender Carpenter Perpetual nail it down.
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