V.W. Poem by Percy Dovetonsils

V.W.



I know they must have been
large round river stones
that she put in her pockets

and that she waded
rather than dived
into the water

and each step she took
was into a different
part
of the river
and even if she had stood still
the river would have always
been different

just as the river
of time
always flows
around us
and in us
and is never the same

no matter
how many stones
we put
in our pockets.

Sunday, August 30, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: suicide
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
As you no doubt know, the novelist Virginia Woolf killed herself in 1941 by putting heavy stones in her pockets and walking into a river.
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