2024 NaPM 04 April

[Mark A Becker]

Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Rain thins the shadows
on cobble stone streets
amid the canyons of Paris.

Umbrellaed pedestrians
Proustian figures
wander in every direction
heads bowed to watch
raindrops intercept their steps.

Immortal now
a moment stolen from the sky
and born again on canvas.

Good one, Tim

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In Another Station of the Metro

Like Pound’s “petals on a wet black bough”
yet on a different Metro now-
the apparition still the same somehow.

Murky shadows on the subway tiles,
faces blurred by daily trials-
a touch of sunny if one smiles.