Poems for a Tuesday

Maybe it's all the fog and office buildings, but I'm feeling a little Carl Sandburg-y today. Here are a couple:

"God Is No Gentleman"
1953

God gets up in the morning
and says, "Another day?"
God goes to work every day
at regular hours.
God is no gentleman for God
puts on overalls and gets
dirty running the universe we know
about and several other universes
nobody knows about but Him.

"Theme in Yellow"

1916

I SPOT the hills

With yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o'-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.