AM I the river your white birds fly over?
Are you the green valley my silver channels roam?
The two of us a bowl of blue sky day time and a bowl of red stars night time?
Who picked you
out of the first great whirl of nothings
and threw you here?
They Ask Each Other Where They Came From
Analysis, meaning and summary of Carl Sandburg's poem They Ask Each Other Where They Came From
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