<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384071" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Trouvée</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, why should a hen<br>have been run over<br>on West 4th Street<br>in the middle of summer?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was a white hen<br>--red-and-white now, of course.<br>How did she get there?<br>Where was she going?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her wing feathers spread<br>flat, flat in the tar,<br>all dirtied, and thin<br>as tissue paper.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pigeon, yes,<br>or an English sparrow,<br>might meet such a fate,<br>but not that poor fowl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just now I went back<br>to look again.<br>I hadn't dreamed it:<br>there is a hen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">turned into a quaint<br>old country saying<br>scribbled in chalk<br>(except for the beak).</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384071" data-title="Trouvée de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Oh, why should a hen have been run over on West 4th Street in the middle of summer? She was a white hen --red-and-white now, of course. How did she get there? Where was she going? Her wing feathers spread flat, flat in the tar, all dirtied, and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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