Are We Ready for Me to Read the Armadillo?

This is a poem of deeply mixed feelings and frust ation that we can't do more to help the people as well as the animals around us. It has a kind of quatrain at the end where you keep thinking it's about to tell you what to make of this tragic spectacle. And then it throws upit ands and just shares your sadness. Are we ready for me to read the armadillo? We are ready for the armadillos. Ok. This is listhe bishop's poem, the armadilla a. She dedicated it to her friend robert lowell.