Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SLEEPING OUT, by ANN COBB


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SLEEPING OUT, by                    
First Line: Last night I lay outdoors till smoke of dawn
Last Line: Brotherly joined to all the waiting things.


Last night I lay outdoors till smoke of dawn.
Down in a little gulley where the leaves
Had piled up soft as Granny's feather bed,
Only a sight more comfort. You could stretch
And fling your arms out wide and not hit up
Against the foot-board, or your brother James.

I watched the sun-ball go cavorting down
Like he was satisfied with the day's work,
And felt no need of lingering about.
Then all the sky grew pieded, like the bank
Above a rock house when spring posies bloom.
One cloud, bright spangled like a rosy-bush,
Faired into blossoms; faired and fell away
Leaving the branches trailing on the sky.

Then stillness came a-creeping roundabout.
Wrenny-birds quit their perky little tune,
Little old crickets held their breath awhile,
And everything just seemed to kindly wait.
It wasn't lonesome, for you felt akin,
Brotherly joined to all the waiting things.





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