My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me. . . .
This statement is paradoxical in that there are separate meanings for the words "closed" and "close"--Dickinson has had experiences in her life which she feels to be equivalent to life's true closing, death itself.
Another example can be found in Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima" when she says:
Passing by[Laura Gruber]
the Peace Park's floral hypocenter (where
how bravely, or with what mistaken cheer,
humanity erased its own erasure). . . .