Classic and Contemporary Poetry

NEW FEET, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Empty battlefields keep their phantoms
Last Line: Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel.
Subject(s): War

EMPTY battlefields keep their phantoms.
Grass crawls over old gun wheels
And a nodding Canada thistle flings a purple
Into the summer's southwest wind,
Wrapping a root in the rust of a bayonet,
Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel.