Val Warner
Virginia Woolf: Impressions
I.
‘Some kind of whole made of shivering
Fragments’ early years of marriage rich stained
Glass of mad affection
Showery downs, shot down
Every mother’s son in a rain of glass.
The Times: ‘the dangerous times would come at the end of
Her novels’ trade or the privileged existence
Of incomplete mental conquests. ‘The threat
Of being sucked back into the actual world’
Of London willowherb and paper tigers.
Strong hands tide of trays
Without a coconut-shy or a role
Of agoraphobic housewife. Prattling birds
Reducing to an extended meal.
II.
When the hounds in full cry, the golden days
Armed, speeds to places still
In the woods filled with padded galloping
And consuming flares of late.
Guardian with a glass of milk dipped
Furry tongue, shuffled sheets and ice:
The braille of sound a milkmaid’s pail
A pinta Joan and gesturing seriphs.
Of lands poorly reclaimed, fleeting
Goddess the smiling vagrant floating
Clerk borne from contortions with H.P.,
More birds throng the woods,
Backwoodsmen of the twilight and urban
Hobgoblins: discouraged from the looking-glass angle.
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