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Poem: “Talisman” by Marianne Craig Moore

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American LiteratureAmerican PoetryMarianne Craig MoorePoems by Marianne Craig Moore
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Talisman


Under a splintered mast,
torn from ship and cast
near her hull,

a stumbling shepherd found
embedded in the ground,
a sea-gull

of lapis lazuli,
a scarab of the sea,
with wings spread—

curling its coral feet,
parting its beak to greet
men long dead.


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