“Like two dim forests edging together the Now and the Then stood, almost silent. What strange animals crept to the verge of each and stared at one another from their own territories?  What rough or velvet coats, and fearful eyes, bright claws and teeth, did each side see? Their shadows wove together and their sunlight and moonlight were the same, but they never approached each other, never mated.”

–an excerpt from “Seven-Days Monologue” by Elizabeth Bishop, quoted in essay “Elizabeth Bishop’s Bramble Bushes” in the book Modern Poetry After Modernism, by James Logenbach.