[Soaring Feather]

A narrow fellow in the grass
by Emily Dickinson

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,--did you not,
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 child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

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.

[Soaring Feather]

A narrow fellow in the grass
by Emily Dickinson

Note to bentfeather....

I find this poem to be mysterious and haunting. Who is the narrow fellow in the grass?

Several of nature's people
Who are these people??

I feel for them a transport Of cordiality;
Is she speaking of a dragonfly??
Her own shadow??

Whatever she saw scared her to the bone.