Archive | Verandah by Derek Walcott - The London Magazine

Archive | Verandah by Derek Walcott - The London Magazine

Derek Walcott Verandah . This poem by Derek Walcott originally appeared in the June 1965 edition of The London Magazine, alongside poetry by John Betjeman and fiction by Nadine Gordimer. . Only a pure and virtuous soulLike a seasoned timber, never gives,But, though the whole world turn to coal,Then, chiefly lives.               – Herbert Frail, ghostly loungers at verandah ends,busher, ramrod colon,your age in ashes, its coherence gone, planter…