In a Station of The Metro

The apparition

of these faces
in the crowd:
Petals
on a wet, black
bough.
Ezra Pound (1913)
Ezra Pound wrote this imagist poem the same year he started to review the notes on Noh left by Ernest Fenollosa.

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