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NEW FEET by CARL SANDBURG

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First Line: EMPTY BATTLEFIELDS KEEP THEIR PHANTOMS
Last Line: REACHING A BLOSSOM IN RUST OF SHRAPNEL.
Subject(s): WAR;
EMPTY battlefields keep their phantoms.
Grass crawls over old gun wheels
And a nodding Canada thistle flings a purple
Into the summer's southwest wind,
Wrapping a root in the rust of a bayonet,
Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel.





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