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Pearl Fog

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

Open the door now.
 Go roll up the collar of your coat
 To walk in the changing scarf of mist.

 Tell your sins here to the pearl fog
 And know for once a deepening night
 Strange as the half-meanings
 Alurk in a wise woman’s mousey eyes.

   Yes, tell your sins
 And know how careless a pearl fog is
 Of the laws you have broken.

Published in Chicago Poems
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