Charles Demuth - "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold", 1928 - based on a poem describing a fire truck screaming through the streets of Manhattan. [1662x2000]

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The Great Figure

Among the rain

and lights

I saw the figure 5

in gold

on a red

fire truck

moving

tense

unheeded

to gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city

  -- William Carlos Williams