Poetry Corner

Here is a poem that I like:

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Occasionally rides

You may have met him? Did you not

His notice instant is -

The Grass divides as with a Comb -

A spotted Shaft is seen,

And then it closes at your Feet

And opens further on -

He likes a Boggy Acre -

A Floor too cool for Corn -

But when a Boy and Barefoot

I more than once at Noon

Have passed I thought a Whip Lash

Unbraiding in the Sun

When stooping to secure it

It wrinkled And was gone -

Several of Nature's People

I know and they know me

I feel for them a transport

Of Cordiality

But never met this Fellow

Attended or alone

Without a tighter Breathing

And Zero at the Bone

Emily Dickinson

For someone who apparently rarely left her house, Emily could sure write about nature. I love that last line "Zero at the Bone". It so perfectly describes the feeling you get when you see a snake. (And I like snakes!)