Elizabeth Bishop Flashcards
“I caught a
tremendous fish and held him beside the boat”
“He hung a
grunting weight battered, vulnerable and homely”
“His brown skin
hung in strips like ancient wallpaper”
“He was speckled with
barnacles fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice”
“Tarnished
tinfoil”
“a five haired
beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw”
“until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow and I let the fish go”
“oil-soaked
oil-permeated to a disturbing, overall black translucency”
“Father wears a dirty,
oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms”
“several quick
and saucy and greasy sons assist him”
“a big dim
doily…a big hirsute begonia”
“Somebody
embroidered doily, somebody waters the plant”
“Somebody
loves us all”
“In the cold
cold parlor, my mother laid out Arthur”
“Stuffed
loon” “chromographs”
“His breast was
deep and white cold and caressable”
“A little
frosted cake”
“Jack Frost
had started to paint him and left him white forever”
“Reading the jokes
from the almanac”
“rain
“tears” and “failing light”
“Teacup
full of dark brown tears”
“Laughing
and talking to hide her tears”
“The teakettle’s
small hard tears dance like mad on the hot black stove”
“The frail, illegal
fire-balloons appear, climbing the mountain height”
