CENTRE

[RonPrice]

` THE CENTRE

....some people think there’s a bit too much luminosity based on not enough stuff...she possessed as a personal pain that sense of crisis and extremity that has so understandably been a part of modern writing....people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre...one was alone....-Malcohm Bradbury on Virginia Woolf, The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, MacMillan, London, 1990, p. 249.

The centre has not held for

many a long year and few

could reach it. They usually

looked in the wrong place

and now it is perceptibly

emerging after a slow and

unobtrusive rise from, what

shall we say: 1912? You’d

like that Virginia, since you saw

human character changing then.

There’s luminosity now and a lot

of stuff to underpin this Centre,

rooted in the soil of history, the word,

a brotherhood of erstwhile strangers

and a vast concourse of radiant servants

slowly establishing His Kingdom.

Ron Price

29 October 1995