Famous Quotes | His awful skin
stretched out...

His awful skin
stretched out by some tradesman
is like my skin, here between my fingers,
a kind of webbing, a kind of frog.
Surely when first born my face was this tiny
and before I was born surely I could fly.
- Anne Sexton
Attribution: Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. “Bat.”

Categories: Animals, Bats, Skin

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