Marianne Moore Strong Poems
- 1. The Pangolin
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. What Are Years
What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe. And whence
is courage: the unanswered question,
... - 3. The Paper Nautilus
For authorities whose hopes
are shaped by mercenaries?
Writers entrapped by
teatime fame and by
... - 4. Nevertheless
you've seen a strawberry
that's had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
... - 5. Peter
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;
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