Friday, June 29, 2018

101 Poems, Number 17


Favorite Poems Throughout My Life


17: “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” 1865, by Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

A poem here about a snake—
And about a plain mistake

That sometimes inattentive you
Can make when you do what you do—

Be careless in the woods and grass
Where critters sometimes like to pass.

But don’t you really love the tone
Of lines like “zero at the bone”?

To use few words to say it all?
A stream becomes a.waterfall.


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