| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| V. Mist Forms |
| 38. Buckwheat |
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THERE was a late autumn cricket, | |
| And two smoldering mountain sunsets | |
| Under the valley roads of her eyes. | |
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| There was a late autumn cricket, | |
| A hangover of summer song, | 5 |
| Scraping a tune | |
| Of the late night clocks of summer, | |
| In the late winter night fireglow, | |
| This in a circle of black velvet at her neck. | |
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In pansy eyes a flash, a thin rim of white light, a beach bonfire ten miles across dunes, a speck of a fool star in night’s half circle of velvet. | 10 |
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| In the corner of the left arm a dimple, a mole, a forget-me-not, and it fluttered a hummingbird wing, a blur in the honey-red clover, in the honey-white buckwheat. | |
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