African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Waring Cuney, "Railway Club" (1929)

Black men, like the bark of a tree,
Women
Pale as day,
Brown boys, darker than earth's red clay,
Golden night-girls,
Yellow as the moon—
And the throbbing pain
In a laughing jazz trio's tune . . .

Oh, earth has a savor of salt and wine.
Great God Jazz, be kind, be kind!


Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1929

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