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SEA IRIS: 2 by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: DO THE MUREX-FISHERS
Last Line: STAINED AMONG THE SALT WEEDS.
Subject(s): BIBLE; IRIS (FLOWER);

Do the murex-fishers
drench you as they pass?
Do your roots drag up colour
from the sand?
Have they slipped gold under you --
rivets of gold?
Band of iris-flowers
above the waves,
you are painted blue,
painted like a fresh prow
stained among the salt weeds.



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