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

V. Mist Forms

42. Pigeon

THE FLUTTER of blue pigeon’s wings

Under a river bridge

Hunting a clean dry arch,

A corner for a sleep—

This flutters here in a woman’s hand.

A singing sleep cry,

A drunken poignant two lines of song,

Somebody looking clean into yesterday

And remembering, or looking clean into

To-morrow, and reading,—

This sings here as a woman’s sleep cry sings.

Pigeon friend of mine,

Fly on, sing on.