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Fantastic photograph of poet Marianne Moore holding a cockatoo at the Bronx Zoo, 1954
It brings to my mind anyway her poem, The Mind is an Enchanting Thing
is an enchanted thing
like the glaze on a
katydid-wing
subdivided by sun
till the nettings are legion.
Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti;like the apteryx-awl
as a beak, or the
kiwi’s rain-shawl
of haired feathers, the mind
feeling its way as though blind,
walks along with its eyes on the ground.It has memory’s ear
that can hear without
having to hear.
Like the gyroscope’s fall,
truly unequivocal
because trued by regnant certainty,it is a power of
strong enchantment. It
is like the dove-
neck animated by
sun; it is memory’s eye;
it’s conscientious inconsistency.It tears off the veil, tears
the temptation, the
mist the heart wears,
from its eyes—if the heart
has a face; it takes apart
dejection. It’s fire in the dove-neck’siridescence; in the
inconsistencies
of Scarlatti.
Unconfusion submits
its confusion to proof; it’s
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I don’t know the woman, nor her poems, but it would be interesting to analyse the body language in that pic.
Is she looking at it in amazement?
Is she backing away from it, as not being at ease?Or maybe both ?
Every picture tells a story.
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Every picture tells a story.
It sure does.
What gets me is the huge hat on a small head and thin neck – paralleled by the cockatoo’s headgear.
They both seem so alike.
Her mind is an enchanting thing is what her face was telling me.
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I think she’s looking at it as if she’s suddenly going to bite its head off and eat it
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I think she’s looking at it as if she’s suddenly going to bite its head off and eat it
That made me laugh!
Not thought of it in that way before, but…
why not?
That’s what makes it such an interesting photograph.
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LOL! yeah i think it’s like this………the woman loves the parrot and is talking to it like one would a dog but she knows that with these birds you don’t get too close to their face.It’s the way they are…they may well peck you hard in the face. Shows that she is familiar with the birds and at ease with them while at the same time respecting the nature of the beast.
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