Snakes, Snakes and More Snakes

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Occasionally rides-

You may have met Him-did not know

His notice sudden 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-

Yet 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

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