Elegant alley-like Acorn Street on Boston’s Beacon Hill.
“All day all over the city every person
Wanders a different city, sealed intact
And haunted as the abandoned subway stations
Under the city. Where is my alley doorway?’’
— From “The Day Dreamers,’’ by Robert Pinsky (born 1940), an American poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. This poem is set in Boston, where Pinsky teaches at Boston University.
Old MBTA (formerly MTA) streetcar.
