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Lewis Alexander, "Durham Streets" (1927)

Durham Streets 

By Lewis Alexander 

Feet
F-e-e-t

Faces
F-a-c-e-s

Bodies
B-o-d-i-e-s
Tobacco scented B-O-D-I-E-S

The Durham streets at dusk
Are swarmed with color.

It is the moving panorama
Painted by the factory artist
Each dusk.


Published in The Messenger, June 1927

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