Making the Mold

Carl Lamson Carmer

Steel mill, Birmingham, Alabama
Round and round
Tamp the sand,
                                 Carl Carmer

Tamp the sand,
Pound and pound
In the furnace glow.
What Afric rite
Amid these iron trees
Makes beautiful the night
With a dancing frieze?
What jungle fires are these?
Round and round
Tamp the sand,
Pound and pound...