Rock rock rock and sand was all that Virginia could see

She had expected little else as she looked into the vast waters beneath her station

It was likely that this sea stretched all the way to America and maybe beyond

 

Virginia was wearing cotton skirt with pleasing blue and grey stripes and a white sweater

Which she rather liked although she felt rather chilled in the light breeze

Her worn pumps were the same colour as the bleached white rock on which she was standing

 

She had left her mother who had an imagined wasting disease in the main bedroom

As she had been told by supposed invalid that she looked pale and was in need of the April sun

These amused Virginia as she had always had a pale complexion and deep ginger hair

 

In her fathers study she had left a curious pink petalled plant which she could not easily identify

This annoyed her slightly as her father would most likely be able to name the plant in a second

She had found it abandoned on the church steps although it was not the day of flowers

 

In the distance a church clock informed her that the first hour of the afternoon had passed

And that she had promised her younger sister that she would accompany her into the town

As the ribbons had arrived a day earlier than expected and were waiting for them in an indigo box

 

 

Virginia’s Diary