DENNIS NEAL VAUGHN • A CONVERSATION ABOUT SEEING •
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At a Window

At a Window
by Carl Sandburg, 1878 - 1967

Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.

I've had my share of illness in my life. There we're many days I couldn't leave my home. Thankfully I had a window with a piece of the sky. It was all that kept me connected to the world "out there."




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    • Just One Breath More. Vicinages.
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    • Neither Here Nor There, II: Towards A Distance
    • Neither Here Nor There, III: The State of Things
    • Betwixt and Between
    • Along The Edge Of San Francisco
    • Twin Peaks
    • Above The American River
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    • Neither Here Nor There
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