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Elizabeth bishop quotes
i caught
a tremendous fish
he hadnt fought at all
he didnt fight
battered
and venerable and homely
fish line
hung five old pieces of
like
medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering
and i let the fish go
until everything was rainbow rainbow rainbow
his brown skin
hung in strips like ancient wallpaper and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper skin like full blown roses
infested
with tiny white sea lice
shallower
and yellower the irises backed and backed with tarnished tinfoil
coarse
white flesh packed in feathers
but
not to return my stare
i admired
his sullen face the mechanismof his jaw
oh
but its durty this little filling station
be
careful with that match
father
wears a dirty oil soaked monkey suit
greasy
sons assist him (its a family filling station)
do
they live in the station
impregnated
wickerwork
why
the extraneous plant, why the taboret , why, oh why the doily
somebody embroided the doily
somebody waters the plant or oils it
somebody
loves us all
in the
cold cold parlor my mother laid out arthur
below
them on the table stood a stuffed loon shot and stuffled
come
and say goodbye to your little cousin
arthurs
coffin was a little frosted cake
jack
frost had dropped the brush and left him white forever
they
invited arthur to be the smallest page at court but how could arthur go
brown
enormous odor he lived by its breathing and thick hair the floor was rotten plastered halfway up with glass smooth dung
sow
that always ate her young
overhanging
clouds of hay
the
lantern like the sun going away
but it took
him a long time finally to make his mind up to go home
laughing
and talking to hide her tears
the rain
that beats on the roof of the house were both foretold by the almanac
the iron
kettle sings on the stove
the teakettle
small hard tears dance like mad on the hot black stove
birdlike
the almanac hovers half open above the child
time
to plant tears says the almanac
teacup
full of dark brown tears
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