Quotation by Marianne Moore

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like

an
injured fan.
Marianne Moore (1887–1972), U.S. poet. The Fish (l. 3–7). . .

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