Christopher X. Shade Poems

In a Station of the Metro

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

 

by Ezra Pound

 

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Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He authored over 70 books. Pound died in Venice, Italy, in 1972 and was buried on the cemetery island Isole di San Michele.