William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure"

The Great Figure

Among the rain

and lights

I saw

the figure 5in gold

on

a red

fire truck

moving tense

unheeded

to gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems

Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921