Petals on a wet, black bough.

from Ezra Pound – In A Station of the Metro on Rap Genius

The petals are faces in the crowd; the wet black bough is the backdrop, probably the crowd in the subway or the walls of the station. Petals are beautiful, fragile, yet full of life: the metaphor captures the beauty of the individual perfectly.

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