Travel – Page 35 – POETRY and PLACES

Paris, France (Metro), In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. PHOTO: Metro Station, Paris, France, by Lee Blanchflower on Unsplash

The Night Journey by Theodore Roethke

NIGHT JOURNEYby Theodore Roethke Now as the train bears west,Its rhythm rocks the earth,And from my Pullman berthI stare into the nightWhile others take their rest.Bridges of iron lace,A suddenness of trees,A lap of mountain mistAll cross my line of sight,Then a bleak wasted place,And a lake below my knees.Full on my neck I feelTheContinue reading “The Night Journey by Theodore Roethke”