# Smoke and Steel

SMOKE AND STEEL
BY
CARL SANDBURG
Author of "Chicago Poems" "Cornhuskers"
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY QUINN AND BODEN COMPANY, INC. RAHWAY, N.J.
To
COL. EDWARD J. STEICHEN
PAINTER OF NOCTURNES AND FACES, CAMERA ENGRAVER OF GLINTS AND MOMENTS, LISTENER TO BLUE EVENING WINDS AND NEW YELLOW ROSES, DREAMER AND FINDER, RIDER OF GREAT MORNINGS IN GARDENS, VALLEYS, BATTLES.
Acknowledgments are due Poetry (Chicago), The New Republic, The Liberator, The Dial, and The Chicago Daily News for permission to reprint poems that appeared originally in their pages.
CONTENTS
| SMOKE NIGHTS | PAGE |
| Smoke and Steel | 3 |
| Five Towns on the B. & O | 11 |
| Work Gangs | 12 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 |
| Whirls | 15 |
| PEOPLE WHO MUST | |
| People Who Must | 19 |
| Alley Rats | 20 |
| Eleventh Avenue Racket | 21 |
| Home Fires | 22 |
| Hats | 23 |
| They All Want to Play Hamlet | 24 |
| The Mayor of Gary | 25 |
| Omaha | 26 |
| Galoots | 27 |
| Crabapple Blossoms | 28 |
| Real Estate News | 30 |
| Manual System | 31 |
| Stripes | 32 |
| Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio | 33 |
| Crapshooters | 34 |
| Soup | 35 |
| Clinton South of Polk | 36 |
| Blue Island Intersection | 37 |
| Red-headed Restaurant Cashier | 38 |
| Boy and Father | 39 |
| Clean Curtains | 41 |
| Crimson Changes People | 42 |
| Neighbors | 44 |
| Cahoots | 45 |
| Blue Maroons | 46 |
| The Hangman at Home | 47 |
| Man, the Man-Hunter | 48 |
| The Sins of Kalamazoo | 49 |
| BROKEN-FACE GARGOYLES | PAGE |
| Broken-face Gargoyles | 57 |
| Aprons of Silence | 59 |
| Death Snips Proud Men | 60 |
| Good-night | 61 |
| Shirt | 62 |
| Jazz Fantasia | 63 |
| Do You Want Affidavits? | 64 |
| Old-fashioned Requited Love | 65 |
| Purple Martins | 66 |
| Brass Keys | 68 |
| Pick Offs | 69 |
| Manufactured Gods | 70 |
| Mask | 71 |
| PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND | |
| Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind | 75 |
| Broken Tabernacles | 78 |
| Ossawatomie | 79 |
| Long Guns | 81 |
| Dusty Doors | 82 |
| Flash Crimson | 83 |
| The Lawyers Know Too Much | 85 |
| Losers | 87 |
| Places | 88 |
| Threes | 89 |
| The Liars | 90 |
| Prayers After World War | 93 |
| A. E. F. | 94 |
| Bas-Relief | 95 |
| Carlovingian Dreams | 96 |
| Bronzes | 97 |
| Let Love Go On | 98 |
| Killers | 99 |
| Clean Hands | 100 |
| Three Ghosts | 102 |
| Pencils | 103 |
| Jug | 105 |
| And This Will be All? | 106 |
| Hoodlums | 107 |
| Yes, the Dead Speak to Us | 109 |
| MIST FORMS | |
| Calls | 115 |
| Sea-Wash | 116 |
| Silver Wind | 117 |
| Evening Waterfall | 118 |
| | PAGE |
| Crucible | 119 |
| Summer Stars | 120 |
| Throw Roses | 121 |
| Just Before April Came | 122 |
| Stars, Songs, Faces | 123 |
| Sandpipers | 124 |
| Three Violins | 125 |
| The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring | 126 |
| Tawny | 127 |
| Slippery | 128 |
| Helga | 129 |
| Baby Toes | 130 |
| People With Proud Chins | 131 |
| Winter Milk | 132 |
| Sleepyheads | 133 |
| Sumach and Birds | 134 |
| Women Washing Their Hair | 135 |
| Peach Blossoms | 136 |
| Half Moon in a High Wind | 137 |
| Remorse | 138 |
| River Moons | 139 |
| Sand Scribblings | 140 |
| How Yesterday Looked | 141 |
| Paula | 142 |
| Laughing Blue Steel | 143 |
| They Ask Each Other Where They Came From . | 144 |
| How Much? | 145 |
| Throwbacks | 146 |
| Wind Song | 147 |
| Three Spring Notations on Bipeds | 148 |
| Sandhill People | 150 |
| Far Rockaway Night till Morning | 151 |
| Humming Bird Woman | 152 |
| Buckwheat | 153 |
| Blue Ridge | 154 |
| Valley Song | 155 |
| Mist Forms" | 156 |
| Pigeon | 157 |
| Chasers | 158 |
| Horse Fiddle | 159 |
| Timber Wings | 161 |
| Night Stuff | 162 |
| Spanish | 163 |
| Shagbark Hickory | 164 |
| The South Wind Say So | 165 |
| ACCOMPLISHED FACTS | PAGE |
| Accomplished Facts | 169 |
| Grieg Being Dead | 170 |
| Chords | 171 |
| Dogheads | 172 |
| Trinity Place | 173 |
| Portrait . | 174 |
| Potomac River Mist | I75 |
| Jack London and O. Henry | 176 |
| His Own Face Hidden | 177 |
| Cups of Coffee | 170 |
| PASSPORTS | |
| Smoke Rose Gold | 181 |
| Tangibles | 182 |
| Night Movement New York | 183 |
| North Atlantic | 184 |
| Fog Portrait | 188 |
| Flying Fish | 189 |
| Home Thoughts | 190 |
| In the Shadow of the Palace | 191 |
| Two Items | 192 |
| Streets Too Old | 193 |
| Savoir Faire | 194 |
| Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache | 196 |
| High Conspiratorial Persons | 197 |
| Baltic Fog Notes | 198 |
| CIRCLES OF DOORS | |
| Circles of Doors | 203 |
| Hate | 204 |
| Two Strangers Breakfast | 205 |
| Snow | 206 |
| Dancer | 207 |
| Plaster | 208 |
| Curse of a Rich Polish Peasant on His Sister Who Ran Away With a Wild Man | 209 |
| Woman With a Past | 210 |
| White Hands | 211 |
| An Electric Sign Goes Dark | 212 |
| They Buy With an Eye to Looks | 214 |
| Proud and Beautiful | 215 |
| Telegram | 216 |
| Glimmer | 217 |
| White Ash | 218 |
| Testimony Regarding a Ghost | 219 |
| | PAGE |
| Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It | 220 |
| Baby Vamps | 222 |
| Vaudeville Dancer | 223 |
| Balloon Faces | 224 |
| HAZE | |
| Haze | 229 |
| Cadenza | 232 |
| Memoranda | 233 |
| Potomac Town in February | 234 |
| Buffalo Dusk | 235 |
| Corn Hut Talk | 236 |
| Branches | 238 |
| Rusty Crimson | 239 |
| Letter S | 240 |
| Weeds | 241 |
| New Farm Tractor | 242 |
| Pods | 243 |
| Harvest Sunset | 244 |
| Nights Nothings Again | 245 |
| PANELS | |
| Panels | 253 |
| Dan | 254 |
| Whiffletree | 255 |
| Mascots | 256 |
| The Skyscraper Loves Night | 257 |
| Never Born | 258 |
| Thin Strips | 259 |
| Five Cent Balloons | 260 |
| My People | 261 |
| Swirl | 262 |
| Wistful | 263 |
| Basket | 264 |
| Fire Pages | 265 |
| Finish | 266 |
| For You | 267 |
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