Sunday, January 16, 2011

A Poem For Virginia Woolf's Biographer

A parody of something I've never felt,
Each page expounding me night and day,
Documents draped over childhood, restored,
And with minutes like futures showing the way.

Whose hope is it to become a mass of detail,
Or an amorphous grant granting time,
A liberating, lusty coil of popular opinion,
An army of hope one can never define.