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

IX. Haze

9. Letter S

THE RIVER is gold under a sunset of Illinois.

It is a molten gold someone pours and changes.

A woman mixing a wedding cake of butter and eggs

Knows what the sunset is pouring on the river here.

The river twists in a letter S.

A gold S now speaks to the Illinois sky.