To Be Written On The Mirror In Whitewash

Portrait of Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop 1911–1979

I live only here, between your eyes and you, But I live in your world. What do I do? --Collect no interest--otherwise what I can; Above all I am not that staring man.

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