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Dickinson, Emily I felt a cleaving in my mind

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Mental Illness
Summary	The narrator describes the disorientation felt as she attempted unsuccessfully to organize her thoughts. The "sequence [of thoughts] ravelled out of reach / Like balls upon a floor."
Source	The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher	Little, Brown
Editors	Thomas H. Johnson
Place Published	Boston
Miscellaneous	First published: 1896.
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	08/29/06