Agenbite of Inwit: Sojourn in the Whaleby Marianne Moore Trying to open locked doors with...
Sojourn in the Whale
by Marianne Moore
Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading
the points of needles, planting shade trees
upside down; swallowed by the opaqueness of one whom the seas
love better than they love you, Ireland—
you have lived and lived on every kind of shortage.
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