L'heure De Midi.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Poem Hunter/ Carl Sandburg/poems/ 118/457.
The poet gives his impressions of a woman who works in a cigar-making factory. She is anxious to earn enough money in exchange for her sweated labour. At lunch-time, she leans on the window-sill overlooking the river and 'feels at her throat/ Cool-moving things out of the free open ways'.She has to be seeingcars. There is a cool breeze blowing at her face 'from the great freeways beyond the walls'.
This is a sympathetic, empathetic portrait of a woman working in a factory and enjoying her daydreaming lunch-hour.