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April 17, 2022 

From Brooklyn

Evelyn Scott

Along the shore
A black net of branches
Tangles the pulpy yellow lamps.
The shell-colored sky is lustrous with the fading sun.
Across the river Manhattan floats—
Dim gardens of fire—
And rushing invisible toward me through the fog,
A hurricane of faces.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 17, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“From Brooklyn” appeared in Precipitations (Nicholas L. Brown, 1920).

Evelyn Scott, born Elsie Dunn on January 17, 1893, in Clarksville, Tennessee, was a novelist, poet, playwright, and children’s author from the Modernist movement. She was the author of many books, including The Narrow House (Boni & Liveright, 1921). She died on August 3, 1963.

Precipitations
(Nicholas L. Brown, 1920)

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