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Into the Station
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Into the Station Pacing on a brick brown brick platform w/ pimpled yellow trim craning neck past the edge of the down town train trench rumble shakes steel rail shuddering mice to hiding holes scampering grey hair against sooty rails like deaf chameleons w/ hairless tails red & yellow white lights herald orange people moving machine thundering under city & streets blurred speeding windows display glimpses of flooded fluorescents & faces flashing onto retinas seeking familiarity and finding none cars career into slowness then stop turning on softened rubber soles eyes seek space to sit or stand w/ in calculate distance and time �til the doors� signaling chime glimpse glance scan then turn & swiftly stride boarding outbound train bounding towards Jamaica Plain
"Into the Station" originally appeared in Poesy #12 (Spring 2001.) and also appears in Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway, edited by Peggy Garrison and David Quintavalle (New York: P & Q Press, 2003.) In 2006 it was selected by the Mayor's Poetry and Prose Program for an exhibition at Boston City Hall. May be reprinted with permission of the author. The poem has since been choreographed as a pantomime.�
Poesy Magazine

Reviewed by Michael Thal

Reviewed on July 14, 2004

Into the Station brings the reader onto a subway car. We feel there. We feel the rumbling, shaking, and blurred speed of the train. Ian Thal uses the senses to make a subway ride come alive.

Reviewed by Ian Thal

Reviewed on March 1, 2004

Shivani,

Your insight is correct in that one of the things for which I aim in my poetry is to portray "the psychedelic" in everyday life. Chemicals are not necessary: it's just a matter of discovering the correct perspective and proximity.

Ian Thal

Reviewed by MaGicKaL HuMMiNgByRd

Reviewed on February 24, 2004

~*~ Ian...I very much enjoy your surrealistic~psychedelic writing style! ~*~

~*~*~*~ Shivani... {Celestial Merlyn} ~*~*~*~

Reviewed by Janet Caldwell

Reviewed on February 17, 2002

This is a fun read and well crafted Ian. Janet :)

Reviewed by Beatrice

Reviewed on February 7, 2002

Very lovely poem. Nice imagery and flow.