Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Experiment to me

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4405076Poems: Second Series — Experiment to me1891Emily Dickinson

XXIII.


EXPERIMENT to me
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.