“The
poet is a dweller in two worlds,
one
dying,
the
other struggling to be born.”
(Virginia
Woolf, The Leaning Tower, 1940, p.173)
___________________________________________
Her
eyes fall
in
eternal gaze.
Sundays
are wind-alike
drying
thoughts from the body.
The
poet stands
dazed
and amazed.
Nothing
has changed much
but
the years.
Flowers
are offered
Mrs.
Dalloway,
but
the dinner is yet to be served.
Interventions
excuses
to write.
Black
cats
scratching
their nails against the clock of time.
Gardens
to awe
to
dream.
Words
words;
and
“parties to cover the silence”*.
Silence;
wars
and
expectations
foreign
lands
and
desires.
Sussex
is not subjected to our dreams
anymore
light
and darkness dance on top its fields.
The
world
leans
to the future
perpetually
as
dinner is served
“too
early for lamps;
and
too early for stars”**.
The
poet stares.
January
2018,
Samothraki
(for
the 136 years since V. W.’s birth, 25 Jan. 1882).
*
Rephrased
from “Mrs.
Dalloway”.
**
Rephrased from “Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car”.
[Photograph
of Virginia Woolf, in 1939, by Gisèle
Freund.]
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