The punctuation of In a Station of the Metro is only half the story. As it first appeared in Poetry in 1913, there were significant spaces between the words. I don't have it with me, but it looked something like this: The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet, black bough. As far as I know, the poem has never been reprinted that way. J, Korg On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tim Romano wrote: > I've had my nose in medieval english texts lately, and both my spelling and > punctuation are the worse for it. Let me correct the punctuation and the > spelling of "In a Station of the Metro": > > The apparition of these faces in the crowd; > Petals on a wet, black bough. > > > > Tim Romano >