Splinter
time
loss
free verse
melancholic
The voice of the last cricket across the first frost is one kind of good-by. It is so thin a splinter of singing.
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Published in Smoke and Steel
Published in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection Smoke and Steel, "Splinter" is a very short lyric that compresses an autumnal farewell into a single image. The last cricket’s thin song across the first frost stands for a delicate, minimal parting. The poem’s brevity and tactile metaphor give a quiet, elegiac tone that fits the collection’s attention to everyday voices and fleeting moments.
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