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Waring Cuney, "No Images" (1927)

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She does not know
Her beauty
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory

If she could dance
Naked
Under palm trees
And see her image in the river
She would know

But there are no palm trees
On the street
And dish water gives back no images


Winner, Opportunity Magazine poetry competition 1926
Published in Carolina Magazine, May 1927
Also published in Caroling Dusk, 1927
Also published in Four Lincoln University Poets, 1928
 

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