Quotation by Marianne Moore

Concurring hands divide

flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.
Marianne Moore (1887–1972), U.S. poet. Spenser's Ireland (l. 34–39). . .

The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.
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