joy

Eve Jackson's poem 'Joy' has now been put up at the Freshwater Bay bus stop. This was the overall winner of the bus stop poems competition and is the last in a series of ten to be cast in bronze and installed at stops round the Island.

It was a bit of a struggle and my attempts to lay nine bricks on top of the pillar to make it tall enough made it look like a scale model of the Tower of Pisa. Wonky as it is though, it's now there and hopefully for a long time.

These three lucky people were the first to read it after installation, arriving as the quick-drying cement was still wet. I think the younger ones may not have understood much, but it seemed appropriate as the poem is all about children - and they did like feeling the raised text and drawings and were very patient as their mum read it out to them.

Here's the poem for you to read for yourselves. The numbers at the top are thought not to be original.