Carl Sandburg

Girl in a Cage

HERE in a cage the dollars come down.  
     To the click of a tube the dollars tumble.  
     And out of a mouth the dollars run.  
 
         I finger the dollars,  
         Paper and silver,          
         Thousands a day.  
 
     Some days it’s fun  
             to finger the dollars.  
Some days…  
             the dollars keep on      
             in a sob or a whisper:  
     A flame of rose in the hair,  
     A flame of silk at the throat.

Cornhuskers. 1918.

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