Small Whip
by Steve Shanks
oil on canvas
sold
Not with a club the heart is broken,

    Nor with a stone;

A whip, so small you could not see it,

    I 've known
 
To lash the magic creature

    Till it fell,

Yet that whip's name too noble

    Then to tell.

Emily Dickinson
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