<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Cool!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Do you know when this was written, Stuart?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">With thanks--</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Karen<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jul 10, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Returning Home</div>
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<div>I saw Virginia Woolf at Preston Station. </div>
<div>A woman with two hats on, </div>
<div>One a white sun hat, and above that</div>
<div>A wide-brimmed straw with a black band. </div>
<div>(Whom was she mourning?) </div>
<div>She'd lost a plastic bag </div>
<div>And flapped along the platform </div>
<div>Like a gull along the tide line, </div>
<div>Searching about the rows of metal seats, </div>
<div>She was tall and wore large shoes. </div>
<div>Her flowered skirt showed briefly </div>
<div>Below a belted summer mac.</div>
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<div>Did she, I wondered, dream of waves</div>
<div>And a distant lighthouse, </div>
<div>Sun on a blind,</div>
<div>And the acorn blind-pull moving tentatively across the floor?</div>
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<div>No one jeered at her.</div>
<div>One or two smiled wanly to themselves. </div>
<div>A well-fed station official,</div>
<div>Running down the platform with her bag, </div>
<div>Pursued her between concrete pillars. </div>
<div>Indifferent observers, waiting for other trains,</div>
<div>Were we the river stones in her pockets dragging her below the</div>
<div> surface?</div>
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<div>But then, I think she rose with slow wing-beats and moved away </div>
<div>Unrestrained</div>
<div>Over the swelling crests,</div>
<div>Into the spaces of her own mind.</div>
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<div>JUDITH YOUNG (b. 1928)</div>
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