The Lines



Many moving parts
adequately spaced apart
—the smell of ranges.

About this poem

I wrote this poem reflecting on my experiences working at the Electrolux factory in Springfield, Tennessee. The rhythmic whizzes and whirls of the mechanisms were odd sources of inspiration that year.

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Written on 2016

Submitted by zero_of_nine on September 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Curtis Carmen Davis

Curtis Carmen Davis is a Midsouth poet published in various regional publications in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. He has received several Awards of Merit from the Nashville Newsletter Poetry Contests and won two essay awards for CCSB travel abroad study to London, Scotland, and later Ireland. In 2016, and 2017, he was published in The Secret Life of Poets poetry magazine. He lives in the misty mountains of East Tennessee. He likes to draw and paint in his spare time. more…

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