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Crucible

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

Hot gold runs a winding stream on the inside of a green bowl.
 Yellow trickles in a fan figure, scatters a line of skirmishers, spreads a chorus of dancing girls, performs blazing ochre evolutions, gathers the whole show into one stream, forgets the past and rolls on.
 The sea-mist green of the bowl’s bottom is a dark throat of sky crossed by quarreling forks of umber and ochre and yellow changing faces.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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