Current Issue: Volume 32, Numbers 1 & 2
TWO-IN-ONE
Dear Julia,
In my Camp Chequesset nickname, Bishie,
There is the two-in-one she and he in me.
And you. Julia, always you will be
My other me whenever I be whoever I am
While in pursuit of answering my need
To satisfy one of the two in me.
And I will be there too: for you,
In the same two-in-one way when you
Are in pursuit of answering your need
To satisfy one of the two in you.
Bishie
• “Bishie” was the nickname that poet Elizabeth Bishop used as a youth. Camp Chequesset•(che-QUESS-et), located in Wellfleet at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a summer camp for young females which Bishop frequented.
