"In Tall Grass" by Carl Sandburg

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Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner           —a skull in the tall grass and a buzz and a buzz of the yellow           honey-hunters. And I ask no better a winding sheet                              (over the earth and under the sun.) Let the bees go honey-hunting with yellow blur of wings in the dome of           my head, in the rumbling, singing arch of my skull. Let there be wings and yellow dust and the drone of dreams of honey—           who loses and remembers?—who keeps and forgets? In a blue sheen of moon over the bones and under the hanging           honeycomb the bees come home and the bees sleep.            This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 3, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About This Poem   "In Tall Grass" was published in Cornhuskers (Henry Holt, 1918).   Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Slabs of the Sunburst West (Harcourt, Brace, 1922) and Chicago Poems (Henry Holt, 1916). He died on July 22, 1967. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Buehrmann Poetry by Sandburg   Selected Poems (Mariner Books, 1996) "Poppies on the Wheat" by Helen Hunt Jackson "Pastoral" by Jennifer Chang "A Horse Grazes in My Shadow" by Matt Rasmussen August Guest Editor: Ruth Ellen Kocher   Thanks to Ruth Ellen Kocher, author of Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Kocher about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. 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