Crumbling Is Not
an Instant's Act

Crumbling is not an instant's Act

   A fundamental pause

Dilapidation's processes

Are organized Decays.

‘Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul

   A Cuticle of Dust

A Borer in the Axis

An Elemental Rust—

Ruin is formal—Devil's work

   Consecutive and slow—

Fail in an instant, no man did

   Slipping—is Crash's law.

EMILY DICKINSON