Elizabeth Bishop
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- Elizabeth Bishop
- The Fish
- "He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all"
- "He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable"
- "his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper"
- "He was speckled with barnacles"
- "fresh and crisp with blood"
- "Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw"
- "And I let the fish go"
- Sestina
- "the old grandmothersits in the kitchen with the child"
- "Little Marvel Stove"
- "laughing and talking to hide her tears"
- "The iron kettle sings on the stove"
- "watching the teakettle's small hard tearsdance like mad on the hot black stove"
- "her teacup full of dark brown tears"
- "Time to plant tears, says the almanac.The grandmother sings to the marvelous stoveand the child draws another inscrutable house"
- In the Waiting Room
- "I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist’s appointment"
- "while I waited I read the National Geographic (I could read)"
- "carefully studied the photographs"
- "A dead man slung on a pole --“Long Pig"
- "Babies with pointed heads wound round and round with string"
- "I read it right straight through. I was too shy to stop."
- "What took me completely by surprise was that it was me"
- "I was my foolish aunt"
- "the sensation of falling off the round, turning world. into cold, blue-black space"
- "Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone?"
- First Death in Nova Scotia
- "In the cold, cold parlormy mother laid out Arthur"
- "on the tablestood a stuffed loon"
- "Since Uncle Arthur fireda bullet into him,he hadn't said a word"
- "He kept his own counsel on his white, frozen lake"
- "Come and say good-byeto your little cousin Arthur."
- "givenone lily of the valleyto put in Arthur's hand"
- "Arthur's coffin wasa little frosted cake,and the red-eyed loon eyed itfrom his white, frozen lake"
- "Jack Frost had started to paint him"
- "left him white, forever"
- Questions of Travel
- "There are too many waterfalls here"
- "Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?"
- "To stare at some inexplicable old stonework, inexplicable and impenetrable"
- "instantly seen and always, always delightful"
- "Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?"
- "But surely it would have been a pity not to have seen the trees along this road"
- " Never to have studied history in the weak calligraphy of songbirds' cages"
- "Is it lack of imagination that makes us come to imagined places, not just stay at home"
- Filling Station
- "Oh, but it is dirty!"
- "Be careful with that match!"
- "Father wears a dirty,oil-soaked monkey suitthat cuts him under the arms"
- "several quick and saucyand greasy sons assist him(it’s a family filling station)"
- "several quick and saucyand greasy sons assist him(it’s a family filling station),all quite thoroughly dirty"
- "Do they live in the station?"
- "grease-impregnated wickerwork;on the wicker sofaa dirty dog, quite comfy"
- "Some comic books providethe only note of color"
- "They lieupon a big dim doilydraping a taboret(part of the set), besidea big hirsute begonia"
- "Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant,or oils it, maybe"
- "Somebodyarranges the rows of cansso that they softly say:esso—so—so—so"
- "Somebody loves us all"
- The Fish
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