Poem by Marianne Moore

“He Wrote the History Book”, It Said

    There! You shed a ray
      of whimsicality on a mask of profundity so
      terrific that I have been dumbfounded by
    it oftener than I care to say.
      The book? Titles are chaff.

    Authentically
      brief and full of energy, you contribute to your father’s
      legibility and are sufficiently
    synthetic. Thank you for showing me
      your father’s autograph.

1. Roses Only
2. In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and
3. To William Butler Yeats on Tagore
4. The Fish
5. Those Various Scalpels

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