The Last Visit In Len Steckler’s 1961 photos of the last visit of Carl Sandburg and Marilyn Monroe, taken less than a year before her death, they’re drinking champagne. The young actress appears smitten with the old poet holding the acoustic guitar and he, no doubt, knows it. In the shot of them posed with books lifted above their heads, what you notice at first glance is their matching platinum hair, also the colour of champagne, then how she stands barefoot in the doorway. Brian Beatty Brian Beatty has published the poetry collections Borrowed Trouble, Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press, 2019 and 2018), Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Coyotes I Couldn't See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). He lives in St. Paul, MN.
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January 2021
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