Still life with BART platform

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In the countless hours I've stood in BART stations, it has been impossible not to notice symmetries in the visual planes around me, captured in the photo for this freewrite.

Viewing that image, there is an unmistakable congruity in the series of white lights overhead, the nebulous reflections of those lights, the square hollows in the concrete walls, the yellow lines that run along the lip of either side of the platform, the flattened "X" which forms diagonally from corner to corner, the triangular wedge along left and right that thins as it trails into the distance.

The other night I focused on just one side of a BART platform. The first shot, above, has a symmetry of angles similar to the full platform shot—symmetry between the yellow line

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which cuts through the middle with the white ceiling panel above it, the slanting white overhead lights with the tracks, the triangular wedge along the left side closing to a small, dark hole where the train makes its entrance. Everyone stares ahead at the drab, gray wall opposite them.

In the second photo, at right, a light appears at the end of the tunnel toward the middle of the image. All heads turn, the woman on the bench gets up, the riders feel a sense of relief that their wait is over.