Garden Wireless / Carl Sandburg

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How many feet ran with sunlight, water and air?

What little devils shaken of laughter, cramming their little ribs with chuckles,

Fixed this lone red tulip, a woman’s mouth of passion kisses, a nun’s mouth of sweet thinking, here topping a straight line of green, a pillar stem?

Who hurled this bomb of red caresses?— nodding balloon-film shooting its wireless every fraction of a second these June days:
                                Love me before I die;
                                               Love me — love me now.

Jason Zhang, Tulip in front yard of Peace Catholic School, 2018. CC 1.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
from Corhhuskers, 1918

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

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