Hymn to Lota
Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together,
in their sleep,
close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.
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Hello Friends —
Today’s poem comes from the published unpublished works of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).
April is National Poetry Month, and I am celebrating by emailing out my own eclectic selection of one poem per day for the duration of the month. If you wish to be unsubscribed from this Poem-a-Day email list at any time, please reply to this email with a friendly unsubscribe request (preferably in heroic couplet form). You may also request to add a consenting friend to the list, or even nominate a poem.
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Enjoy.
Ellen
P.S. Happy Birthday, Dara!
“Hymn to Lota” by Elizabeth Bishop was featured again for Poem-a-Day April 5, 2009.
Poems by Elizabeth Bishop were also featured for Poem-a-Day April 6, 2008 and Poem-a-Day April 13, 2010.