I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

Also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, this is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth, inspired by a 1921 poem by William Carlos Willams, "The Great Figure."

The poem is about a red fire engine racing through the street--Engine No. 5. The painting captures the approach and receding via perspective and parallax. The number 5 becomes a character of its own, landing in front of the artist's viewpoint.

So, for this challenge:

Poem --> to painting and --> (to me) back --> to poem again:

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TITLE: Just Another Number

Somewhere was

Belched No.5

Birthed into my world

Emergently

Warble/chirp/trills enter my ears

Sinusoidal perturbations

Crunched to bunch toward me

Acoustically

Precipitous, red, monstrous machinery

Blue shifting forewarns

Juggernaut and Titan

Visually

At me

Time and life move differently

For it and me

Relatively

We intersect at shared

Moment and coordinates

To touch the other

Geographically

Trills and chirps rush away

Howling sirens stretch

And timbres devolve

Acoustically

Machinations on wheels recede

Cutting swath divides the urban sea

That slams back behind it

Visually

Toward the checkered flag, aflame

Emergency rolls on to be

Someone else's problem

Fatefully

Tension and drama settle away

From me to someone not me

Someone unknown

Invisibly

Victims unknown, soon forgotten

My life continues

Without others' problems

Indifferently