GOOD NIGHT

By Carl Sandburg

Many ways to say good night.

Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July

spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.

They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.

Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue

and then go out.

Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack

mushrooming a white pillar.

Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying a

baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields to

razorback hill.

It is easy to spell good night.

Many ways to spell good night.