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Emily Dickinson1830–1886

There interposed a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.

Emily Dickinson on life and death

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (1896)

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