Marianne Moore Time 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. 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
... - 3. 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;
... - 4. Marriage
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
... - 5. 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
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