JABOWSKY'S place is on a side street and only the rain washes the dusty three balls.
When I passed the window a month ago, there rested in proud isolation:
A family bible with hasps of brass twisted off, a wooden clock with pendulum gone,
And a porcelain crucifix with the glaze nicked where the left elbow of Jesus is represented.
I passed to-day and they were all there, resting in proud isolation, the clock and the crucifix saying no more and no less than before, and a yellow cat sleeping in a patch of sun alongside the family bible with the hasps off.
Only the rain washes the dusty three balls in front of Jabowsky's place on a side street.
Three Balls
Carl Sandburg
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Poem topics: cat, sun, yellow, patch, window, Valentine's Day, jesus, family, isolation, rain, place, street, clock, bible, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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