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Tag: Carl Sandburg

Two Treatments of an Image

Carl Sandburg wrote this little poem:

images-1.jpgFog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Continue reading “Two Treatments of an Image” →

Posted on 11/06/201711/06/2017 by MikePosted in Poetry, ReadingTagged Carl Sandburg, cats, Fog, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Leave a comment

He Didn’t Sit In With The Big Thieves

He Didn’t Sit In With The Big Thieves

To a Contemporary Bunkshooter

YOU come along … tearing your shirt … yelling about Jesus.

Where do you get that stuff?
What do you know about Jesus

Continue reading “He Didn’t Sit In With The Big Thieves” →
Posted on 11/06/201704/01/2022 by MikePosted in Poetry, Reading, ReligionTagged Bunkshooter, Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems. Leave a comment

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