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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

III. Broken-Face Gargoyles

4. Good-night

MANY ways to spell good night.

Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.

They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.

Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue and then go out.

Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack mushrooming a white pillar.

Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying in a baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields to a razorback hill.

It is easy to spell good night.

Many ways to spell good night.