86. Handfuls. Sandburg, Carl. 1918. Cornhuskers

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918.

86. Handfuls


BLOSSOMS of babies
Blinking their stories
Come soft
On the dusk and the babble;
Little red gamblers,	5
Handfuls that slept in the dust.

Summers of rain,
Winters of drift,
Tell off the years;
And they go back	10
Who came soft—
Back to the sod,
To silence and dust;
Gray gamblers,
Handfuls again.	15