Sunday, September 18, 2011

Gong Clangs Siren Howls




THE GREAT FIGURE

William Carlos Williams


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


RE: WCW's birthday. (h/t) this guy.

2 comments:

  1. Awesome. One byte of art and poetry launches you into flight. Internet good. Let's make a government and take it over. Heh.

    For those outside the joke: a print of the above was just about the only non-Beatles or non-Dead art hanging in my first apartment, shared with eventual first wife Bluebird. Damn, acid was fun.

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  2. Damn, acid was fun.

    Related. (Distantly, that is...I don't even know the species. Of the mushroom, the frog is a pickerel frog.)
    ~

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