Sunday, 4 A.M.
Dreamed c. 1960 by Elizabeth Bishop
An endless and flooded
dreamland, lying low, cross- and wheel-studded like a tick-tack-toe. At the right, ancillary,
The old kitchen knife box,
The gray horse needs shoeing!
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If you're the donor,
you might do that much! Turn on the light. Turn over. On the bed a smutch-- black-and-gold gesso
Dream dream confronting,
The world seldom changes,
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Good luck figuring out which bits are insomnia and which are Bishop dreaming of insomnia...
--Chris Wayan
SOURCE: Questions of Travel, 1965
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