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Band Concert

 

BAND concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing
          and circling dresses, summer-white dresses.
          Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blos-
          soms. And giggles, God knows, gigglers, rival-
          ling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable
          Blues.
 
Cowboy rags and nigger rags. And boys driving sorrel
          horses hurl a cornfield laughter at the girls in
          dresses, summer-white dresses. Amid the cornet
          staccato and the tuba oompa, gigglers, God
          knows, gigglers daffy with life's razzle dazzle.
 
Slow good-night melodies and Home Sweet Home.
          And the snare drummer bookkeeper in a hard-
          ware store nods hello to the daughter of a rail-
          road conductor-a giggler, God knows, a giggler
          -and the summer-white dresses filter fanwise
          out of the public square.
 
The crushed strawberries of ice cream soda places, the
          night wind in cottonwoods and willows, the lat-
          tice shadows of doorsteps and porches, these
          know more of the story.
 
 
 
 

Carl Sandburg

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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