Bolivia: The Luxury Bus
by Ian Birch
Ordinarily, cities gradually envelop you. First you are in farmland; then scattered houses, gas stations, suburbs, and warehouses emerge, until you are no longer in the countryside.
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Ordinarily, cities gradually envelop you. First you are in farmland; then scattered houses, gas stations, suburbs, and warehouses emerge, until you are no longer in the countryside.
Snowflakes fall, turning the land’s dark espresso
white. Here the barista
knows your name, your chosen milk.
From the diary of Anne Frank,
you remember few names but long hiding days,
muffled silence, ghostly shades,
suppressed within walls.
Jan Morris was my literary hero. She was a noted historian, a celebrated essayist, and one of the world’s most treasured and talented travel writers.