so sweet & so cold

The poem referenced in this story is called, This is Just to Say  by William Carlos Williams (who was  born in NJ [like me!]).

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast.

Forgive me — they were delicious:
so sweet + so cold.

This poem echoes the sentiments expressed by Ezra Pounds in In a Station of the Metro  which people believe was written about the Park Street T-Stop in Boston (where Pounds is from!).

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Interestingly, in 2007 when I was last a student at SCAD, I took a typography course in which I had to visually represent a poem + I chose In a Station of the Metro:


For the number three, I chose browns + reds because of the song, Dirty Water  by The Standells (1966), which is about Boston:

But I love that dirty water
Oh, Boston, you're my home.

I went through the most revisions to this skyline of all my images, I  think because this story is one of  the most sentimental to me.