PagineNo Images
by Waring Cuney · in Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
From Caroling Dusk (1927)
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.
This poem is in the public domain. Source text: Project Gutenberg.