Experiment to me

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

      Is every one I meet.

If it contain a kernel?

The figure of a nut


Presents upon a tree,

Equally plausibly;

But meat within is requisite,

To squirrels and to me.

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