3. desember - Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop er ein diktar eg stadig tenker at eg skulle ha lese meir av. Men eg har aldri tatt meg tid til å sette meg ned og lese heile forfattarskapet hennar. "One art" var det første diktet eg las av henne, ei humoristisk vinkling på eit av dei store, sentrallyriske tema.

"One art"

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mothers watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.-

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.