Penguin Books, 1972, 188 p.,
condition: very good
A Talisman by Marianne Moore
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.