Quotation by Theodore Roethke

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A little quaker, the whole body of him trembling,
His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon-mouse,
His feet like small leaves,
Little lizard-feet,
Whitish and spread wide when he tried to struggle away,

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), U.S. poet. The Meadow Mouse (l. 6–10). . .

Naked Poetry; Recent American Poetry in Open Forms. Stephen Berg and Robert Mezey, eds. (1969) The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

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