Marianne Moore Blue Poems
- 1. The Steeple-jack
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
... - 2. Rosemary
Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary -
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
... - 3. Nine Nectarines And Other Porcelain
Arranged by two's as peaches are,
at intervals that all may liveâ??
eight and a single one, on twigs that
grew the year beforeâ??they look like
... - 4. The Fish
wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
... - 5. Marriage
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
... - 6. An Octopus
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
...
