Lorine Niedecker again

 I suspect Lorine Niedecker found this poem, unnoticed — and thus unloved — in a musty letter somewhere:

Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham:

pay particular attention

to my pets, the grasses.

The line is from a prominent naturalist to a regional naturalist who was something of a Wisconsin specialist.

I’d say the object here is not grass, which most people don’t notice. It’s the interest that some people have in wonderful objects that others generally ignore. That interest is a nebulous thing, a hard thing to get your hands on and treat as an object.

This poem does it for me.