“... the end of the world had come ...”

When Words Fail / Heron Tree

… a look to the past may offer brief condolence.

“… the end of the world had come …” is a found poem created from Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf (1922) archived within the public domain.

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Thank you, Heron Tree for including this work.

And thank you, Virginia.

... the end of the world had come ...

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Strangely enough, you could
smell violets
a patch
of white
and two
of purple.

"About the poem and the process of composing it, Sheree Shatsky writes:

My process for found poems involves the discovery and repurpose of words and phrases connecting with my sense of word play. As a result, the phrase “the end of the world had come” emerged from text to title and serves to redact original text by use as a struck shadow phrase."

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For those lost and found.