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[image coutersy, dVerse poets pub)

 Contradicting Emily

Why write if not to free thought from its incarceration of mind's cell, if not to converse, to share and expect retort in the bargain.

Appreciation can be free, many will agree, but when a reader, dips into her purse to show the worth of a poet's thought, that narrative is special; that's applauding publication.

Is the 'auction of the mind', still considered a seeming truism, in today's effortless - share, follow and add.

©  gillena cox 2026

NOTE: I opted not to do flash fuction.

To understand  the line fully; i googled. This is what i got

Publication — is the Auction" by Emily Dickinson (c. 1863) argues that publishing one's work ("the mind") is a "foul" act of selling one's inner thoughts for public consumption, akin to a market auction. The poem suggests that turning intellectual and spiritual creation into a commercial product "reduces" the human spirit to a market price.

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