WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 04 May 2026 19:43:52 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Roethke, Theodore – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Roethke, Theodore -- “The Bat” (1938) https://wist.info/roethke-theodore/68000/ https://wist.info/roethke-theodore/68000/#respond Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:12:16 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=68000 By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.


Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) American poet
“The Bat” (1938)
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