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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD MAN WHITTLES, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD First Line: On some lumber by a yellow box car Last Line: On a peach-stone. Subject(s): Wood Carving; Whittling | |||
On some lumber by a yellow box car on a wharf, A one-legged old man sits in the sun and whittles. He wears old pants and an old brown coat, And a rusty black hat shades a blue-veined face of white whiskers. He puffs away on an old brown pipe, and cuts away on a peach-stone. I sat down beside him and asked him, "What's that gonna be, Grandpa?" And he never looked up, but answered, "Oh, nothin' much in partic'lar, just whittlin'." And he whittles away and imagines strange things on a peach-stone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WAIT by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT COTTONMOUTH by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD STEEL MILL MEN by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD PEOPLE'S SURROUNDINGS by MARIANNE MOORE THE BLACK RIDERS: 9 by STEPHEN CRANE CINQUAIN: AMAZE by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY A LITTLE CHILD'S HYMN; FOR NIGHT AND MORNING by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE SESTINA: ALTAFORTE by EZRA POUND |
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