A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 7/21/24*
Two for One Day. "Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop and "Skunk Hours" by Robert Lowell
(Above: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil. 1962.)
THE ARMADILLO
by Elizabeth Bishop
for Robert Lowell
This is the time of year
when almost every night
the frail, illegal fire balloons appear.
Climbing the mountain height,
rising toward a saint
still honored in these parts,
the paper chambers flush and fill with light
that comes and goes, like hearts.
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