THE TELESCOPE picks off star dust
on the clean steel sky and sends it to me.
The telephone picks off my voice and
sends it cross country a thousand miles.
The eyes in my head pick off pages of
Napoleon memoirs
a rag handler,
a head of dreams walks in a sheet of
mist
the palace panels shut in nobodies
drinking nothings out of silver
helmets
in the end we all come to a
rock island and the hold of the sea-walls.
Pick Offs
written byCarl Sandburg
© Carl Sandburg
