Poem of the week: Death sets a Thing significant … by Emily Dickinson

‘Now — when I read — I read not — / For interrupting Tears —’ … a daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson. Photograph: Alamy

Death sets a Thing significant
The Eye had hurried by
Except a perished Creature
Entreat us tenderly

To ponder little workmanships
In Crayon — or in wool —
With “This was last Her fingers did” —
Industrious until —