The Great Figure
William Carlos Williams
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.
I SAW THE FIGURE 5 IN GOLD: Charles Demuth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Alfred Stieglitz
Collection, 1949.
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