All the way to where my reasons end?
Days: And think
Of all those cluttered instruments,
One to a fact,
Canceling each other's experience;
How they were
Like some hideous calendar
"Compliments of Never & Forever, Inc."
The intimidating sound
Of these voices
We must separately find
Can and shall be vanquished:
Days and Distance disarrayed again
And gone
Both for good and from the gentle battleground.
Here, Bishop returns to one of her favorite topics of alienation, and the difficulty of holding oneself together in the flux of the world around her, much as she did in  “The Gentleman of Shalott.” 
 Bishop lost her father at a young age, and her mother was in and out of mental institutions at this time as well, so this interest could well be biographical.
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