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Dickinson, Emily - The only ghost I ever saw
Identifier
002810
Type of Spiritual Experience
Inter composer communication
Hallucination
Background
Mechlin is a bobbin lace - one of the best known Flemish laces. It is fine, transparent, often with intricate floral patterns, that are twisted, plaited and outlined with loosely spun silk cord. Fine meshed and expensive it is regarded as far superior to for example Brussels lace or Valencienne lace.
A description of the experience
Emily Dickinson – from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The only Ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in mechlen – so
He wore no sandal on his foot
And stepped like flakes of snow
His gait was soundless like the bird
But rapid like the Roe
His fashions, quaint, mosaic
Or haply, mistletoe
His conversation seldom
His laughter, like the breeze
That dies away in dimples
Among the pensive trees
Our interview was transient
Of me, himself was shy
And God forbid I look behind
Since that appalling day