| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918. |
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| 56. Chicks |
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| THE CHICK in the egg picks at the shell, cracks open one oval world, and enters another oval world. | |
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| “Cheep … cheep … cheep” is the salutation of the newcomer, the emigrant, the casual at the gates of the new world. | |
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| “Cheep … cheep” … from oval to oval, sunset to sunset, star to star. | |
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| It is at the door of this house, this teeny weeny eggshell exit, it is here men say a riddle and jeer each other: who are you? where do you go from here? | |
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| (In the academies many books, at the circus many sacks of peanuts, at the club rooms many cigar butts.) | 5 |
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| “Cheep … cheep” … from oval to oval, sunset to sunset, star to star. | |
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