| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| V. Mist Forms |
| 26. Sand Scribblings |
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| THE WIND stops, the wind begins. | |
| The wind says stop, begin. | |
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| A sea shovel scrapes the sand floor. | |
| The shovel changes, the floor changes. | |
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| The sandpipers, maybe they know. | 5 |
| Maybe a three-pointed foot can tell. | |
| Maybe the fog moon they fly to, guesses. | |
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| The sandpipers cheep “Here” and get away. | |
| Five of them fly and keep together flying. | |
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| Night hair of some sea woman | 10 |
| Curls on the sand when the sea leaves | |
| The salt tide without a good-by. | |
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| Boxes on the beach are empty. | |
| Shake ’em and the nails loosen. | |
| They have been somewhere. | 15 |
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