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Author: Rory

Returning from a Swim on Koh Phangan

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I huff puffed up the newly treeless hill
Unthinking of the change from verdant lush
To parched hardscrabble. Bailiff ants remove
Last remnants of the old guard’s ferny home.

Rory October 21, 2021 Poetry

Cycling to Riga

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A faulty pedal clanks at every turn
Reminding me of all that isn’t right.
It’s how I manage on this sort of trip.
By nature sedentary, I have to pound

Rory October 21, 2021 Poetry

Shanghai, 1986

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Rory’s latest poem is based on a trip he took to Shanghai in 1986 in his best, crumpled, clothes…

Rory October 20, 2021 Poetry

Trainspotters

I cursed my prudence, wished I’d blown A fortnight’s wages on a flight And not been sat in […]

Rory May 5, 2021 Poetry

Angkor Wat 1994

No traveller should read the health chapter of a guidebook. I had made this mistake and consequently fretted […]

Rory April 24, 2021 Uncategorized

A Jealous Bookseller

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I usually can predict what people choose
And she had seemed less lumpen than the run
Of those who shop here, rarely untattooed…

Rory February 2, 2021 Poetry

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Rory January 1, 2021 Fiction, Short Stories
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