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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLEAN SWEEP, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON
First Line: Dirt in the gutter
Last Line: Lest the wind repeat.
First Line: Dirt in the gutter
Last Line: Lest the wind repeat.
Dirt in the gutter,
Wind in the street:
Sweep clean the clutter
Lest the wind repeat.
Clutter of words
On a windy page
Ink-black with squalor,
Sin in a rage.
If a world is innocent
Of smut on a page
Can a world be sullied
By sin in a rage?
Clutter of words
On a windy sheet:
Sweep clean the clutter
Lest the wind repeat.
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