Carl Sandburg (1878 1967 American waiter considered the poet of the common man Sandburg also authored comprehensive biographies of Lincoln Outstanding A.Ms.S., an original poem of 23 fines on two 4to pages [n.p.,n.d.], a brooding, dark vision of World War Ii certainly written during the war. In part And lonesome little villages looked up land saw smoke on the moon blood on the moon Now it is mid June 1943 land time goes by with wool shod/ And time flits on in a velvet sheen I And sun on the moon does changes And blood on the moon creeps over And time is a row of puppets On the verso he writes batch This on the porch was finished with typewriter in the studio Carl In pencil dark and fully legible.