Sour Grapes/The Great Figure

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Boston: The Four Seas Company, page 78. This poem inspired a painting by Charles Demuth.

478915Sour Grapes — The Great FigureWilliam Carlos Williams

THE GREAT FIGURE

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
with weight and urgency
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.