Welcome to Litsy!

Originally published in 1979, then reissued in 2006 by Kids Can Press with bright, impressionist illustrations by Eugenie Fernandes, Dionne Brand‘s collection of poems for children captures the landscape, weather & cultural world of her native Trinidad. Joyous #Canadian #kidlit #poetry.

Tuesday fades
in a light blue haze,
taking green grasshopper leaps,
skipping down Carib street,
youth in your black shiny legs,
that mama greased herself,
in your yellow cotton dress you run,
playing hopscotch with the sun.

The sky blinked,
woke up,
and might have changed its mind,
but day had come.