First Known When Lost: The Shadow: Three Variations On A Theme

First Known When Lost: The Shadow: Three Variations On A Theme
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It is a slight poem, but something about it -- the combination of humor and truth? -- has kept it embedded in my memory, and I often return to it.

Things to Come

The shadow of a fat man in the moonlight
Precedes me on the road down which I go;
And should I turn and run, he would pursue me:
This is the man whom I must get to know.

James Reeves, The Questioning Tiger (1964).....
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