<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459883" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Elizabeth Bishop</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although it is a cold evening, <br>down by one of the fishhouses<br>an old man sits netting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this were a novel<br>by, say, Jack London, <br>something would be about to happen: <br>time would pass, events move on, <br>dramas unfold; we might see this old man again, <br>or we might not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead, we share a moment outside time, <br>share our being – the old man; <br>Elizabeth, whose grandfather was his friend; <br>ourselves; knowing that, the more real this moment, <br>how frail our knowledge: historical, perhaps, <br>yet sharper, crueller, cold as this evening, <br>salty sharp as the encrusted herring barrels, <br>fluid, powered, secret, as this sultry silver water<br>lapping at the quay; <br>here, flowing, flown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459883" data-title="To Elizabeth Bishop de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting. If this were a novel by, say, Jack London, something would be about to happen: time would pass, events move on, dramas unfold; we might see this old man aga..."></div> </div> </div>

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