sylvia moves slowly like her coat.
she had a slow coat that looked like her shoes
baggy and shoddy/saggy and bhoddy/
most people thought sylvia hurried up around them.
but her coat made her look like she walked slowly.
sylvia was laughin then.
at the young age of twenty-three sylvia was old.
OLD because she WAS her coat. she was slow …
going the same place tomorrow.
New World Journal provides insights into the birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region's most influential intellectual movements. Presented online, they constitute an invaluable record of significant intellectual expressions and political developments in the Anglophone Caribbean in the early post-colonial period. In all, 14 issues of the physical journal appeared between 1963 and 1972.