30. They Ask Each Other Where They Came From. V. Mist Forms. Sandburg, Carl. 1920. Smoke and Steel

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

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30. They Ask Each Other Where They Came From

AM I the river your white birds fly over?
Are you the green valley my silver channels roam?
The two of us a bowl of blue sky day time and a bowl of red stars night time?
Who picked you
out of the first great whirl of nothings	5
and threw you here?