"Poem," from Geography III: In the foreground
a water meadow with some tiny cows,
two brushstrokes each, but confidently cows.
In Sha Sha, an early portrait of her friend Charlotte Russell, above the wainscoting panels whose wood grain, complete with mildew, receives special attention, a simple mathematical equation is written on the wall: "1 + 4 = 7." As perhaps a comment on other "inaccuracies" in the picture--the anatomy of the figure, the invisible chair she sits on--it boasts, like them, a pictorial rightness of its own.
from The New York Review of Books: Elizabeth Bishop's Other Art
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