My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005) Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace #Scottish #literature #peace #poem #poetry #InternationalDayofPeace