Poems (Marianne Moore)/YOU ARE LIKE THE REALISTIC PRODUCT OF AN IDEALISTIC SEARCH FOR GOLD AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW

by Marianne Moore

YOU ARE LIKE THE REALISTIC PRODUCT OF AN IDEALISTIC SEARCH FOR GOLD AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW

Hid by the august foliage and fruit of the grape vine,
twine
 your anatomy
  round the pruned and polished stem,
   chameleon.
   Fire laid upon
  an emerald as long as
 the Dark King's massy
one,
could not snap the spectrum up for food as you have done.