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Good Morning Midnight

10Jul08

Jean Rhys, best known for “Wide Sargasso Sea”, wrote about women in the 1920s and 1930s, this poem tries the capture the spirit of some of her novels.  Originally published in Exit 21: Poems Selected by Ian McMillan.
 
Good Morning Midnight
(after Jean Rhys)
This hostel room is bare.
The remaining wallpaper,
wallflower-like, refuses to peel.
She’s huddled into [...]


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