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.


"The Bat," ll. 5-10 - Open House (1941)

Theodore Roethke Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...