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Emily Dickinson: How soft a Caterpillar steps - I find one on my Ha



How soft a Caterpillar steps -
I find one on my Hand
From such a Velvet world it came -
Such plushes at command
It's soundless travels just arrest
My slow - terrestrial eye -
Intent upon it's own career -
What use has it for me.

Emily Dickinson

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