Marianne Moore Life 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.
    The pin-swin or spine-swine
    (the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out,
    echidna and echinoderm in distressed-
    pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny pig or porcupine,
    ...
  • 4.
    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;
    ...
  • 5.
    This institution,
    perhaps one should say enterprise
    out of respect for which
    one says one need not change one's mind
    ...
  • 6.
    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
    ...
Total 6 Life Poems by Marianne Moore

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