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Pigeon

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

The flutter of blue pigeon’s wings
 Under a river bridge
 Hunting a clean dry arch,
 A corner for a sleep—
 This flutters here in a woman’s hand.

 A singing sleep cry,
 A drunken poignant two lines of song,
 Somebody looking clean into yesterday
 And remembering, or looking clean into
 To-morrow, and reading,—
 This sings here as a woman’s sleep cry sings.

 Pigeon friend of mine,
 Fly on, sing on.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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