Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE COCK OF THE CHARCOAL BURNER, by ANDRE SALMON



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THE COCK OF THE CHARCOAL BURNER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin black cock of the charcoal burner
Last Line: Go tell it to the birds.
Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Wings; Cocks


The thin black cock of the charcoal burner
His piercing joy has widely sung,
With wing soft furled, but stiff spur sterner,
High on his heap of fossil dung.

Noon is stifled in his haughty crows
Under the bells of the factory!
You put on tight-fitting clothes
Of stinginess refractory.

Time is bald;
The roses that dizzy
Have petals galled.

But since once, while the breeze blew,
The black cock went "adoodledoo!"
Good Francis of Assisi,

Go tell it to the birds.





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