“I recall a documentary
Of Cossacks . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
the prize bunnyhug
and platform piece of experts in the
trip-and-slug of wrestling in a rug.
. . . . . . . . . .
These battlers, dressed identically—
just-one-person—may, by seeming twins.
point a moral, should I confess:
we must cement the parts of any
objective symbol of sagesse.”
—The New Yorker, June 6, 1959, p. 40.
Moore either attended or saw on television a performance of the Moiseyev Dance Company of Moscow which appeared in New York during the 1958-59 season.
One part of the performance is described in the lines above. The following URL is a video of that performance. Be sure to watch it to the end. If the format below does not work, paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt3CPsY_K2k into your browser.
Marianne Moore: Poetry 
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