Screenshot showing the first lines of a dictionary entry for the word 'horripilation.' After the entry word title, it reads, 'a bristling of the hair of the head or body (as from fright or excitement).'

I want to see the caterpillar, his whole body

a fat neck, rolling hills and horripilation.

I want to remember how, every time

he dropped from some leaf to my arm,

we appalled each other. I want to remember

-- Jane Zwart, "All my life I was a bride married to amazement"

Horripilation /

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