Torch song to send you on your way

In New Haven’s Union Station

— Photo by Grendelkhan

‘The bar in the commuter station steams

like a ruin, its fourth wall open

to the crowd and the fluttering timetables.

In the farthest corner, the television

crackles a torch song and a beaded gown.’'

— From “The Northeast Corridor,’’ by Donald Revell (born 1954), American poet