Elizabeth Bishop Poems

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21.
Questions Of Travel

There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
hurry too rapidly down to the sea,
and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops
makes them spill over the sides in soft slow-motion,
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22.
Argument

Days that cannot bring you near
or will not,
Distance trying to appear
something more obstinate,
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23.
Arrival At Santos

Here is a coast; here is a harbor;
here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery:
impractically shaped and--who knows?--self-pitying mountains,
sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery,
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24.
The Moose

For Grace Bulmer Bowers


From narrow provinces
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25.
Lines Written In The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

[Given to Frank Bidart]


You won't become a gourmet* cook
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26.
Poem

About the size of an old-style dollar bill,
American or Canadian,
mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays
-this little painting (a sketch for a larger one?)
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27.
To Be Written On The Mirror In Whitewash

28.
Cirque D'Hiver

Across the floor flits the mechanical toy,
fit for a king of several centuries back.
A little circus horse with real white hair.
His eyes are glossy black.
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29.
Giant Toad

I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me.
My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great beauty, even
so. They see too much, above, below. And yet, there is not much
to see. The rain has stopped. The mist is gathering on my skin
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30.
Song For The Rainy Season

Hidden, oh hidden
in the high fog
the house we live in,
beneath the magnetic rock,
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