School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson Fiona Moore  The High Window Â

 The High Window  [on Between the Islands]

White dew on the underside of a leaf

When followed to their natural end

mother and sister

School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson Fiona Moore  The High Window ÂIn language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. The narratives of the soldiers overlap with Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the