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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