Marianne Moore Away Poems

  • 1.
    Another armored animalâ??scale
    lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
    form the uninterrupted central
    tail row! This near artichoke with head and legs and
    ...
  • 2.
    Dürer would have seen a reason for living
    in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
    to look at; with the sweet sea air coming into your house
    on a fine day, from water etched
    ...
  • 3.
    Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats,
    he sleeps his time away-the detached first claw on his foreleg which corresponds
    to the thumb, retracted to its tip; the small tuft of fronds
    or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group;
    ...
  • 4.
    of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
    it lies “in grandeur and in mass”
    beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;
    dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its clearly defined
    ...
  • 5.
    Man looking into the sea,
    taking the view from those who have as much right to it as
    you have to it yourself,
    it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
    ...
Total 5 Away Poems by Marianne Moore

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