It was the second time I’d tried to find his grave. Having travelled twelve thousand miles to sit with him and reflect on how our ‘lives’ had crossed I wasn’t going to give up and go home with this ambition unfulfilled, with just some solo, dangling conversation to reflect on. Twelve months before I […]
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An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the then Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none […]
Bernard Pivot’s ~ or otherwise James Lipton’s ~ Questionnaire
Fans of Inside the Actor’s Studio are familiar with James Lipton’s list of questions, which he poses to each of his guests at the end of an interview. Lipton always gives credit for this list to French talk show host Bernard Pivot, who hosted Apostrophe’s from 1975–1990 and Bouillon de Culturefrom 1990–2001.He often […]
Seido Karate and the Myth of Invincibility
‘But he could tear the horns off bulls’. When discussing the comparative merits of a range of karate disciplines this statement was put forward as advancing Kyokushinkai karatedo to the head of the queue. It seemed rather incongruous and didn’t quite fit with what I had come to understand were the underlying principles of karatedo […]
Kikyuu
Kikyuu for Shay When I was born I could not speak Japanese Half way to the shuffling off I still cannot Speak Japanese. On the other side from you In so many ways I stand on my head Eat no meat in the land of utu and the barbie Godzone and long white cloud Am […]
Blind Journeys
Blind Journeys For my Dad ~ ANZAC Day ~ 25 April, 2010 10486 Pte John Walker Matheson The old man sat In that room of his In that chair of his And he must have thought ‘What the fuck was that all about?’ Maybe not in those words As he didn’t use those words Not […]
Violets Spring/Fair/Unpolluted
Violets Spring/Fair/Unpolluted You can sense him in his house At the end In the garden Reeking of Susannah’s herbs and potions John Hall’s pretense Her real man Grabbing Staining her sheets Cuckoldry coming home to roost To rest Aching with whatever killed him The Ague He loaned (in perpetuity) to Falstaff The anguish of old […]
Six Haiku …
Six Haiku … LOVE INERT Rocks splinter under ice Winter’s coil wraps me today Love, inert, in that crevasse Monday, 25 April 2010 JIGAI – JUMONJI GIRI Spring rain mists the face Reconciles, Sakura petals fall There will be no tears Friday, 30 April 2010 ENDSONG Leaves fly in spring winds, It is right to die […]
Washing of Hands …
Washing of Hands … Water boiling Under canvas Little Malaya (Pissing down) With minor surgery Planned Some clumsy grunt Through a windscreen Glass To be removed Cuts Sutured I wash my hands in the prescribed manner In the prescribed manner I wash my hands I must avoid spreading infections I must cleanse my hands before […]
Excelcis Gloria
Excelcis Gloria I’m going to include some stuff I wrote in the ’70’s from a ‘slight book of verse’ called They Don’t Give the Keys to the Cuckoos. The small house is white And the blue shutters give it A colonial look The gate creaks And the path is overgrown slightly The door opens And the light […]
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