Letters to Foreign Friends: A Good Day for Poets

Cloaked in hope: American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden, January 20, 2021.  Photo Copyright © 2021 by Rob Carr/Getty Images.

 

MORNING, SUNSHINE, 

In and Out of Worlds

Pupils of St Margaret's Primary in St John show their best "lightning bolts." We would use Usain Bolt's trademark pose and other fun stretches to prepare for our storybook travels. (Photo: S. A. Devonish)
 

The drive to Glenburnie takes you east to a part of St. John that is so far flung it is practically in the ocean.

I made it my escape every Tuesday for six weeks to read to schoolchildren there.