‘Who knows how he got in’

The Boston Athenaeum

“Closing time at the Athenaeum,

but this visitor bat

(who knows how he got in)

seems intent on staying the night;

our waving arms, a rolled Times,

the janitor’s broom haven’t phased him a bit.’’

— From “American Sublime’’, by Mark Doty (born 1953)

The St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Athenaeum

— Photo by Gopats92