one art, elizibeth bishop, marshall ross, east greenwich high school,

1. One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

2. Is no Disaster
that their loss
so manythings seem filled with the intent to
belost
TheArt of isn’t hard
losing to master.

4. The Art of losing isn’t hard to master.

5. None of these will bring Disaster
Then practice losing farther,
Places,
And names,
And where it was you
meant to travel
Losing Faster:

6. I lost my Mother’s watch

7. AND LOOK!

8. My last,
or
next to last,
Of Three
Loved
Houses

10. Lovely ones.
I lost two cities,
And,
some realms I
owned,
vaster,
two rivers,

11. But it wasn’t a disaster
tinent
a con
I miss them,

12. ---Even
Losing you
(The joking voice, a gesture I liked)
I shan’t have
lied

13. It’s
evident
Though it may look like
(Write it!)

14. LikeDisaster