 The spatial dimension, then, can relate to a temporal dimension.In the poems "The Fish" and "The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop, temporal iconicity is at work.The amount of time it takes to read "The Fish" coincides with the length of time a fish could live outside of water; likewise, the duration of the long bus ride in "The Moose" coincides with the poem's long first sentence as well as the twenty-some stanzas it takes before the passengers on the bus (and the reader) actually encounters the moose.