Saturday 2 October 2010

Autumn Movement

de Carl Sandburg

I CRIED over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the
neck of the copper sunburned woman, the
mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is
torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in
the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts.

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