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Carl Sandburg - Autumn Movement
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts.
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Another of my mini-paintings: “Which Foot Itches”, 2020, acryla-gouache on paper, 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 inches. A warm gray polygonal shape in a little forest clearing.
The title is from Botkin’s A Treasury of American Folklore (1944), quoting Carl Sandburg’s The People, Yes: “If your right foot itches you will soon start on a journey, if it’s your left foot you will go where you are not wanted.”
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