Part V
December 25th, 2006 — December 22nd, 2007
“These minutes, these hours, these days.”
-Chris Knight
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels— until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.
-Elizabeth Bishop
Living the Dream 