A collection of poems and other writings...

Thursday 27 March 2014

Her First Snow

Gemma Graziano
was the colour of toast.
She came from Italy
or Spain
or a hot country
somewhere.

On Friday
after lunch
we were doing paintings
and it started to snow outside.

Gemma stood by the window.
The white flakes sparkled in her eyes.
She clapped
and laughed
and looked at us.

She had never seen snow before.

We stood there with our paintbrushes
and our mouths open
and looked at her.

We had never seen
someone
who had never seen snow
before.

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