Here is a drawing of Me! done by the great artist Will Barnet. Will deeply loved and was deeply loved. His talent went out to the spirit of Emily Dickinson as he illustrated “ A world in a frame” his favorite poems she wrote. Both of New England, I learned to cherish the quiet beauty of a softened heart.
A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)
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.