Elizabeth Bishop: Electrical Storms and Slow Sundays
Image: Unsplash, downloaded https://unsplash.com/photos/UHsCCN5PJrI (9.3.2021.) Sunday, 4 A.M. An endless and flooded
dreamland, lying low,
cross- and wheel-studded
like a tick-tack-toe.
At the right, ancillary,
"Mary" 's close and blue,
Which Mary? Aunt Mary?
Tall Mary Stearns I knew?
The old kitchen knife box,
full of rusty nails,
is at the left. A high vox
humana somewhere wails:
The gray horse needs shoeing!
It's always the same!
What are you doing,
there beyond the fr
