a formal feeling

Have been thinking about Emily Dickinson a great deal now today, especially after reading her a lot yesterday, specifically the poem After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes. Here's the final stanza:

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow --
First -- Chill -- then Stupor -- then the letting go --

Am thinking about how she uses the em dash...as both a pause and a breath, both a breathing out and breathing in, both a connecting thread (e.g. to the next line)/point of potential, as well as a repose or blackout. Feel there's a strong relation to the way I'm working with some of my drawings, attempting to invert the positive and negative space, back and forth.

Here's the rest:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs --
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round --
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone --

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow --
First -- Chill -- then Stupor -- then the letting go --