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Elizabeth Bishop - Sleeping on the Ceiling
164 Views • Nov 07, 2014
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It is the Place de la Concorde.
The little crystal chandelier
is off, the fountain is in the dark.
Not a soul is in the park.
Below, where the wallpaper is peeling,
the Jardin des Plantes has locked its gates.
Those photographs are animals.
The mighty flowers and foliage rustle;
under the leaves the insects tunnel.
We must go under the wallpaper
to meet the insect-gladiator,
to battle with a net and trident,
and leave the fountain and the square
But oh, that we could sleep up there...
Elizabeth Bishop
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sleeping-on-the-ceiling/
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