from House Guest by Elizabeth Bishop

Can it be that we nourish
one of the Fates in our bosoms?
Clotho, sewing our lives
with a bony little foot
on a borrowed sewing machine,
and our fates will be like hers,
and our hems crooked forever?

8 thoughts on “from House Guest by Elizabeth Bishop

  1. Elizabeth is terrific but to imagine my life all that crooked might be a reach. Even she had far to go before crooked. Is it vanity or self importance that creeps in? By definition, can poetry folk be all that crooked? Unreliable, probably. Morally corrupt? Let’s not let imaginations go wild.

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