Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

II. People Who Must

5. Hats

HATS, where do you belong?

what is under you?

On the rim of a skyscraper’s forehead

I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:

Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls,

Stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn.

Hats: tell me your high hopes.