Bloomsbury Walking Tour
This was a photo was taken by Aaron Joshua Asparin of the landscape during the Bloomsbury Walking Tour, hosted by Professor J. Ashley Foster
“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway;
inspired by Professor J. Ashley Foster’s “Bloomsbury Walking Tour”
The steps of the cobblestones
drew my attention towards my
immersion into such a new place–
studying such a creative life,
that the previous grief that had
sullied my skies with dark and heavy
soot and infested my world
in a repulsive fucking stench,
had suddenly dissipated when
I finally came to this place,
when I finally bore witness to
their stories– to their lives,
but especially when I sat there,
talking to you,
as if the world I finally reached,
that was finally all around me,
didn’t exist.
Aaron Asparin
This poem was specifically written in inspiration to a certain person I had fallen for throughout my trip studying abroad-- a relationship that was subtly brewing as I visited the locations throughout the walking tour. The walking tour made me salient to how my previous sadness the previous semester was completely gone-- some in part due to being in such a beautiful place, learning wonderful stories through my professor's tour, but also in part due to the fact that I lost complete sense of where I was when I sat there, speaking to that lover.