Judith-poem inspired by Virginia Woolf

By Sophie Jickling

The following poem is based on Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister”, a thought experiment from her book A Room of One’s Own. they would’ve taunted her voice pressing it down to a whisper  a measly murmur under her breath and they would’ve mocked her movement  until her spine bent down over the desk  disciplined into obedience  the only…