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Haunts
Carl Sandburg
There are places I go when I am strong.
One is a marsh pool where I used to go
with a long-ear hound-dog.
One is a wild crabapple tree; I was there
a moonlight night with a girl.
The dog is gone; the girl is gone; I go to these
places when there is no other place to go.
About this poem
“Haunts” was published in The Little Review (Vol. 5, No. 2) in June of 1918. It appeared in Sandburg’s collection “Cornhuskers” (Henry Holt and Company, 1918).
About Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Ill., on Jan. 6, 1878. His books include “Chicago Poems” (Henry Holt and Company, 1916) and “Cornhuskers” (Henry Holt and Company, 1918), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. He died on July 22, 1967.
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