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| Issue 34: | Sept. 2026 |
| Haibun: | 105 words |
By Daryl Scroggins
Any Way You Cut It
He [Charles Demuth] always called me Carlos and once painted a “literary” picture around my name and a poem I had written to “The Great Figure” (the figure 5 on the side of a firetruck in wild transit through the New York Streets).*
—From The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
Somewhere between 5:55 and 5:56, in the large red numbers on my bedside digital clock, Zeno’s infinitely divided string of fives appears. The only indivisible increment there is—eternity. Which includes my first glance at 5:55.
so long to make the flowered dress it never fit her
*I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928) by American Precisionist artist Charles Demuth is held in The Met Collection and may be viewed online (link retrieved on 4 September 2026): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488315
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