Images for 01/17/08

Jan Vemeer, woman holding a balance:




IN A STATION OF THE METRO by Ezra Pound


The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
[1913]




THE RED WHEELBARROW by William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon


a red wheel
barrow


glazed with rain
water


beside the white
chickens.

[1923]