Free Verse · Nature
Fog
by Carl Sandburg · 1916
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
This poem is in the public domain. First published in Chicago Poems, 1916.
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg — quilloak.com/poems/fog
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