Responding to a listener email, a heartbroken Jacke takes a close look at Emily Dickinson’s astonishing poem “A Bird, came down the Walk.”

Additional listening suggestions:

• 120 The Astonishing Emily Dickinson
• 418 “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
• 95 The Runaway Poets (the story of the Brownings)

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