Still Life by Carl Sandburg

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 22, 2015   Still Life   Carl Sandburg

Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour. Take in the prairie right and left, rolling land and new hay crops,                   swaths of new hay laid in the sun. A gray village flecks by and the horses hitched in front of the post-office       never blink an eye. A barnyard and fifteen Holstein cows, dabs of white on a black wall               map, never blink an eye. A signalman in a tower, the outpost of Kansas City, keeps his place at a       window with the serenity of a bronze statue on a dark night when           lovers pass whispering.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Still Life” was published in Sandburg’s book Cornhuskers (H. Holt and Company, 1918).   Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. He published numerous books of poetry and won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg died in Flat Rock, North Carolina, in 1967.   Photo credit: Elizabeth Buehrmann Poetry by Sandburg   The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003) "Prairie Spring" by Willa Cather "Travel" by Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Strange Hours Travelers Keep" by August Kleinzahler Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038