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2020.02.07 22:02

Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop.

Part 1 of 5.

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,
turning to waterfalls under our very eyes.
- For if those streaks, those mile-long, shiny, tearstains,
aren't waterfalls yet,
in a quick age or so, as ages go here,
they probably will be.
But if the streams and clouds keep travelling, travelling,
the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships,
slime-hung and barnacled.
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Comments

  • Pon 2020.02.07 22:23

    JP
    ES

    I really love her poems. Breathtaking!
  • Emad Hussen 2020.02.07 23:14

    AR
    ES

    I like your selection of the poems and your accent as well.
  • simone 2020.02.08 04:04

    CN
    EN

    Love your pronunciation!!

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