Editor's Selection of Poems Voracities and Verities Sometimes are Interacting
by Marianne Moore
I don't like diamonds;
the emerald's "grass-lamp glow" is better;
and unobtrusiveness is dazzling,
upon occasion.
Some kinds of gratitude are trying.
Poets, don't make a fuss;
the elephant's "crooked trumpet" "doth write";
and to a tiger-book I am reading -
I think you know the one -
I am under obligation.
One may be pardoned, yes I know
one may, for love undying.
