Poem-A-Day: Marianne Moore, You Are Fire Eaters

	July 14, 2012 Today's poem appears in The Poems of Marianne Moore, published by Viking Penguin. More from this author Other Moore Poems A Grave Baseball and Writing Feed Me, Also, River God He "Digesteth Harde Yron" Poetry You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		You Are Fire Eaters by Marianne Moore        Not a mere blowing flame—        A clinking ash, I feel—with shame,           At malendeavor in your service. But as Jehoshaphat said on that occasion in               Old Testament history,        "The battle is not mine,"        And strategy laid down—in fine           Surrender, may be conquest. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend