Delineation

by Richard Stoltzfoos

The Definition is
The slender Needle
That crucifies an
Enterprising Beetle
Which though it rive the matter
Through the heart
And sure the Subject
From a quick depart
Yet touches of its Total
Only part

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Richard Stoltzfoos is the son of Adin,
son of Wilmer,
son of Elam,
son of Moses,
son of Samuel,
son of John,
son of Christian,
son of Nicholas Stoltzfus,
who in the year 1766 emigrated from Europe,
being born of Christian Gottlieb Stoltzfus,
of the Saxon line of that name
which began in the year of our Lord 400,
by the provision of God, in German Saxony.

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Photography by Kenneth Godoy