Haunts
Haunts - context Summary
Published in 1920
Published in the 1920 collection Smoke and Steel, Carl Sandburg’s "Haunts" reflects a quiet nostalgia for intimate, personal landscapes. The speaker names two remembered places—a marsh pool visited with a hound and a crabapple tree shared with a girl—and admits those memories remain when other outlets fail. The short lyric relies on straightforward, autobiographical detail to suggest loss, consolation, and the persistence of memory.
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