“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
“Purple Martins&# first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel , published six years after he rose to prominence following the publication of some of his poems in the famed Poetry magazine. Go on tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun. Twirl on, you and your satin blue.
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