在雨中起舞

John Lyons在这一系列中介绍了他的特立尼亚童年。他描述了气候，在令人振动的雨中跳舞，在识别出标题诗中的一个聚集风暴的迹象，在“莫妮卡冬天”和“快乐的雪人”中的英格兰寒冷。Nature comes to life in the words and the pictures drawn by the poet, whether it’s the happy hummingbird, the marsupial Trini ‘manicou with its pouchy tum’, ‘Tobago land crabs with a mangrove smell’, ‘wild and swift’ ‘nervous and shy agoutis’ or the iguana ‘this big lizard at large’ who ‘is talented with camouflage.’

来自加勒比民间传说的鬼魂和食尸鬼等幽灵和食尸鬼，如“为Soucouyant'设置陷阱”，“寻找双环”和“攀岩骨架”，以适当的可怕时尚闪耀着树。Sharing food brings out relationships with family and friends, especially between generations, and is where the poet often writes in the nation language of Trinidad, saying ‘How ah love de sugarcake/meh Granny does mek’ and ‘At home wid meh sticky-mango-juice face,/meh grandma gimmeh ah good lickin/wid ah tamarind switch.’