Quotation by Elizabeth Bishop

O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), U.S. poet. The Armadillo (l. 37–40). . .

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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