Monday, February 21, 2011

Just Before April Came by Carl Sandburg

The Snow piles in dark places are gone.
Pools by the railroad tracks shine clear.
The gravel of all shallow places shines,
A white pigeon reels and somersaults
Frogs plutter and squdge--
and frogs beat the air
with a recurring thin steel sliver of
melody

Crows go in fives and tens;
they march their black feathers past a blue pool;
they celebrate an old festival.
A spider is trying his webs, a pink bug
sits on my hand washing his forelegs
I might ask: who are these people?