Bishop Tells

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“I know what I know, says the almanac.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“I concentrate.
My books hypnotize each other.
Jarrell tells Bishop to stare
at the spot. Tate
tells Plath she’s going under.
Eliot remembers his long lost mother....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)