An Afternoon with Jane Austen

An Afternoon with Jane

Oh, to eat chocolate cake

While wearing a white linen dress

Sitting in the room where

She wrote about life.

Sipping tea

Listening to clocks chiming

A ghostly tune.

Oh, to believe for a moment

That Jane Austen wants

To hear about the latest

Cinematic versions of her

200 year-old books.

Giggling about why Darcy is everyone’s

Favorite character.

Oh, to touch the quill

She held in her hand

As her mind turned to

Carriages and balls,

Love and loss

And happy endings that

She never had.

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