More poetry about headless torsos
Inspired by Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “Agora,” newly unveiled in Chicago, we reminded you of TS Eliot’s, “We are the hollow men … “
Now we post some
Carl Sandburg.
Born in Sandburg Village in 1878… That’s not true; but he did write these lines, about another headless sculpture ….
” And you left off the head here,
The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles.”
Number 11 of Sandburg’s “Chicago Poems.”
We write much more on Agora here.
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