Poem A Day – Jan. 22, 2017
#MIDDLEBURY
Poetry
Marianne Moore
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 28, 2016
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Silence
Marianne Moore
My father used to say,
“Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
or the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self-reliant ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Nov. 2, 2016
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Talisman
Marianne Moore
Under a splintered mast,
torn from ship and cast
near her hull,
a stumbling shepherd found
embedded in the ground,
a sea-gull
of lapis lazuli,
a ... Continue Reading →
