04 October 2022

What I am I am

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts
My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself.
I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer's sun.
What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer.


HENRY D. THOREAU, Journals, February 26, 1841
... what I am I am...