Tuesday Poem: "In A Station of the Metro" By Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd,

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ezra Pound, 1885-1972

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Last week I posted a haiku by Bassho as my Tuesday poem. This week I have chosen a very short poem by Ezra Pound, a poet greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese verse, to complement the haiku. In a Staion of the Metro is not a haiku, but I believe it encapsulates much of what the haiku form seeks to accomplish, chiefly the capture of that single "a-ha" moment in the most ...