Hemlock and Cedar by Carl Sandburg
THIN sheets of blue smoke among white slabs … near the shingle mill … winter morning. Falling of a dry leaf might be heard … circular steel tears through a log. Slope of woodland … brown … soft … tinge of blue such as pansy eyes. Farther, field fires … funnel of yellow smoke … spellings of other yellow in corn stubble. Bobsled on a down-hill road … February snow mud … horses steaming … Oscar the driver sings ragtime under a spot of red seen a mile … the red wool yarn of Oscar’s stocking cap is seen from the shingle mill to the ridge of hemlock and cedar.
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