2/3 train, 96th Street to Clark Street, March 27th, 2014
Another two for one. An overcrowded train. The shortest among us needed access to the vertical pole so I was stuck with clinging fingertips on the high rail. A tall woman kindly volunteered to switch. She could easily reach the center rail. Center rail? We all marveled. I guessed that the newer Bombardier trains had them, and we had never noticed. It was a good time to mention the poetry project. It turns out short and tall were friends. Such wonderful women: warm, enthusiastic, intelligent, both singers, friends from cantorial school.
Bombardier is the name
How amazing it is to meet
in this train
Two wonderful women
with arms stretched tall,
A singer, a poet and
another so small
Holding the rail
straphangers all
a NYC moment
What a wonderful project. Have to try this on the bus since there is no subway system in Israel yet.
Yishar koach.
Suzanne-wish we could ride the train together and write about it. Trains count on accidental encounters.