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\nLetter to N.Y.<\/strong>
\n — Elizabeth Bishop<\/p>\n

for Louise Crane<\/em><\/p>\n

In your next letter I wish you’d say
\nwhere you are going and what you are doing;
\nhow are the plays, and after the plays
\nwhat other pleasures you’re pursuing:<\/p>\n

taking cabs in the middle of the night,
\ndriving as if to save your soul
\nwhere the road goes round and round the park
\nand the meter glares like a moral owl,<\/p>\n

and the trees look so queer and green
\nstanding alone in big black caves
\nand suddenly you’re in a different place
\nwhere everything seems to happen in waves,<\/p>\n

and most of the jokes you just can’t catch,
\nlike dirty words rubbed off a slate,
\nand the songs are loud but somehow dim
\nand it gets so terribly late,<\/p>\n

and coming out of the brownstone house
\nto the gray sidewalk, the watered street,
\none side of the buildings rises with the sun
\nlike a glistening field of wheat.<\/p>\n

— Wheat, not oats, dear. I’m afraid
\nif it’s wheat it’s none of your sowing,
\nnevertheless I’d like to know
\nwhat you are doing and where you are going.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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