{"id":108,"date":"2020-03-24T04:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/chapter\/poem-a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T17:34:00","slug":"poem-a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/chapter\/poem-a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass\/","title":{"raw":"Poem: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass","rendered":"Poem: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"},"content":{"raw":"<strong>A Narrow Fellow in the Grass<\/strong>\n<strong>Author<\/strong>: Emily Dickinson\n\nA narrow fellow in the grass\nOccasionally rides;\nYou may have met him\u2014did you not\nHis notice instant is,\nThe grass divides as with a comb,\nA spotted shaft is seen,\nAnd then it closes at your feet,\nAnd opens further on.\n\nHe likes a boggy acre\nA floor too cool for corn,\nYet when a boy and barefoot,\nI more than once at noon\nHave passed, I thought, a whip lash,\nUnbraiding in the sun,\nWhen stooping to secure it,\nIt wrinkled and was gone.\n\nSeveral of nature's people\nI know, and they know me;\nI feel for them a transport\nOf cordiality.\nYet never met this fellow,\nAttended or alone,\nWithout a tighter breathing,\nAnd zero at the bone.","rendered":"<p><strong>A Narrow Fellow in the Grass<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Author<\/strong>: Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p>A narrow fellow in the grass<br \/>\nOccasionally rides;<br \/>\nYou may have met him\u2014did you not<br \/>\nHis notice instant is,<br \/>\nThe grass divides as with a comb,<br \/>\nA spotted shaft is seen,<br \/>\nAnd then it closes at your feet,<br \/>\nAnd opens further on.<\/p>\n<p>He likes a boggy acre<br \/>\nA floor too cool for corn,<br \/>\nYet when a boy and barefoot,<br \/>\nI more than once at noon<br \/>\nHave passed, I thought, a whip lash,<br \/>\nUnbraiding in the sun,<br \/>\nWhen stooping to secure it,<br \/>\nIt wrinkled and was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Several of nature&#8217;s people<br \/>\nI know, and they know me;<br \/>\nI feel for them a transport<br \/>\nOf cordiality.<br \/>\nYet never met this fellow,<br \/>\nAttended or alone,<br \/>\nWithout a tighter breathing,<br \/>\nAnd zero at the bone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-108","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hccfl.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}