“When Death Comes,” she expresses an outlook on death that resembles that of Canus. She tells us that when death comes—like “an iceberg between the shoulder blades”—she doesn’t want to realize, now that it is too late to do anything about it, that she has simply been a visitor in this world. She doesn’t want to end up sighing, frightened, or arguing. She wants instead to enter that “cottage of darkness” full of curiosity, knowing that she spent her life play ing the role of “a bride married to amazement.”
