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| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
| V. Mist Forms |
| 34. Three Spring Notations on Bipeds |
1 THE DOWN drop of the blackbird, | |
| The wing catch of arrested flight, | |
| The stop midway and then off: off for triangles, circles, loops of new hieroglyphs— | |
| This is April’s way: a woman: | |
| “O yes, I’m here again and your heart | 5 |
| knows I was coming.” | |
2 White pigeons rush at the sun, | |
| A marathon of wing feats is on: | |
| “Who most loves danger? Who most loves wings? Who somersaults for God’s sake in the name of wing power in the sun and blue on an April Thursday.” | |
| So ten winged heads, ten winged feet, race their white forms over Elmhurst. | 10 |
| They go fast: once the ten together were a feather of foam bubble, a chrysanthemum whirl speaking to silver and azure. | |
3 The child is on my shoulders. | |
| In the prairie moonlight the child’s legs hang over my shoulders. | |
| She sits on my neck and I hear her calling me a good horse. | |
| She slides down—and into the moon silver of a prairie stream | 15 |
| She throws a stone and laughs at the clug-clug. |
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