One Need Not Be A Chamber

670 (“One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—”) by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)  

One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted— 
One need not be a House— 
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing 
Material Place— 

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting 
External Ghost 
Than its interior Confronting— 
That Cooler Host. 

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop, 
The Stones a’chase— 
Than Unarmed, one’s a’self encounter— 
In lonesome Place— 

Ourself behind ourself, concealed— 
Should startle most— 
Assassin hid in our Apartment 
Be Horror’s least. 

The Body—borrows a Revolver— 
He bolts the Door— 
O’erlooking a superior spectre— 
Or More—