The poem The 1925 revision of Observations (1924) is a fiction. Marianne Moore never met her father, who was locked away before she was born in what was then called an insane asylum. The flower is a fiction. The glass is real.
When a hat is worn to the full, it becomes an idea Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bibi au Restaurant d’Eden Roc, Cap d’Antibes, May 1920