The first time I read this poem I really did not know what it meant. It took me a good 15 minutes to really grasp the meaning of the poem, well to what I think the poem means to me. Ezra uses the word "apparition" which means that the faces he see's on the metro station are unknown, and that he basically sticks out. Another line that caught my attention was "petals on a wet, black bough" I can visualize a colorful petal on a dark branch, again making the petals stick out on the black branch. From what I have read, he is basically trying to say that being out in the modern world there are a lot of things out there that you need to familiarize yourself with otherwise you see yourself sticking out, just as Ezra did.
The poem can also go the other ways, as Ezra being the normal person and everyone else seems to be gone. We can take the same word he used “apparition” which means ghostly, and it can mean that he seen everyone’s face appear to be like a ghost, which means that the people in the metro are relying heavily on technology. When is the last time you went to a metro station and seen no one using technology? It never happens, everyone seems to be ignoring each other, making it seem like the other people are ghost, like they don’t exist due to the technology we are always on. Also the line “petals on a wet, black bough” can mean he is the only one seeing it (him being the petal) and everyone else is the black stuff on the bough. Even though this poem is two lines, it is so powerful, you may think it’s not when you take a quick glance but if you pay attention to the words and how he used them, you see the beauty of it, I believe this poem is written in a haiku style, but I am not sure about that.
P.S if you pay attention to the station picture you can see that the people have no faces, which is like Ezra said "apparition of these faces" this is something i thought i would share with the readers
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