Spy Poetry: Train Ride by Ruth Stone

Editor’s Note: There are always at least two ways of looking at things; if you’re a poet, sometimes 13! (Read Wallace Stevens’ 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.) The speaker in this poem conceives of life as being simultaneously momentary and infinite, suggesting that the truth of our existence embraces these opposites.

Train Ride

All things come to an end;…

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