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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHILD READS THE ALMANAC, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poet's Biography First Line: Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac Last Line: They're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences. Subject(s): Almanacs; Books; Constellations; Markets; Zodiac; Reading; Supermarkets | |||
Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac. Besides the saints, and the weather phenomena, she can look at the pretty signs of the zodiac: Goat, Bull, Ram, Fish, et cetera. So she can think, the little country lass, that far above, where the constellations float, there are markets, too, like here, with many an ass, or bull, or ram, or fish, or fine she-goat. Doubtless it's the sky's market that she is reading. And when the page turns where the balance is she fancies in heaven, as at the grocery, they're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL THE A & P by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET by CARL SANDBURG BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR by REGINALD SHEPHERD TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO) by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA by ALLEN GINSBERG TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE by EDWARD CARPENTER MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER |
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