Remember that scene in "Schindler's List" where Schindler is looking out on the Jews walking through the ravaged town and his eye is following the little girl in the red coat. I was just looking at a live cam of Sergels torg in Stockholm. It's one of the coolest looking places in Stockholm. It's a lower level mall type thing with a black and white checkerboard open air plaza. In the cam, I can see the people of Stockholm bustling through their busy day while traffic circles up above them around the glass tower. Just as I was watching them, all of them in dark jackets, there was a little girl in a red coat. It looked like she was with her mom or something and the mom was walking slowly across the plaza. The little girl, however, was running around and around, jumping from white triangle to black and back again with the abandonment of childhood. I became fascinated. It was almost surreal and I watched until she finally ducked out of sight into the building.
I think there was some poetry in that scene.
