Synchronicity, or, Life imitates Wallace Stevens

[chanaleh]

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

XIV.
A guitar across the subway platform:
Blackbird singing in the dead of night.
A stranger sits down to my left:
winking from his tattooed calf,
a blackbird.

Comments

[rishikanta.livejournal.com]

There are some strange occurrences and epiphanies that happen on subway platforms.

I don't really take the T too much anymore, but I had a very visceral break from the world around me one day waiting for the Orange Line in Downtown Crossing.
So much so that the experience is still etched into me two years later.

[dpolicar]

that was lovely... thanks for the link.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite poems. I think that was why the synchronicity in the subway struck me.