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Sitting in Very Large Trees
Posted in Performance Art, Thailand, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Howell, Epping Forest, Thailand, Tualang tree
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THE CAVERN
x Mere slips of girls behind masks are hardly what I am after. But am I that keen on entering this regal, sleeping vagina? Look what became of the wild boars, swallowed by an unforgiving Mountain who’d endured a love … Continue reading
Posted in history and Geography, Poetry, Thailand
Tagged cave rescue, Chiang Rai District, legends, Princesses, Thailand, Tham Luang
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Does it say ‘Gawow’ or ‘For Real’?
CHIT CHAT x For real, for real, for real. x For real, for real, for real, for real. Who who who who who who who who Snipped pips, snipped pips, snipped x For real, for real, for real? Who who … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Thailand, Video
Tagged Birdsong, Common Asian Koel, Thailand, what birds say
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ACCORDING TO PLINY
The dragon, ever at war with the elephant, Is itself of so enormous a size, As easily to overwhelm the elephant, Seize it in its clutches and encircle Its legs in its coils. x The contest is equally Fatal to … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, Thailand, war
Tagged Annonetheelephant, dragons and elephants, Pliny, superpower warfare
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THE GOOD RAT
x One Buddha’s seven-headed cobra parasol Also offers coils for his throne. The Princess and the Pea Came to mind for somebody, one dry afternoon x When the long, refreshingly cool trunk of a python Got wrapped around my shoulders … Continue reading
Posted in Thailand, Uncategorized
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HOMAGE TO THE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU
x Steep tracts of dry earth occasionally perplexed by roots Proceed up the aisles of perpendicular cathedrals. Bundled pillars of bamboo admit onto chapels of The unkempt wild banana, larger than a mammoth by Comparison to its pip-less and domesticated … Continue reading
When Nature Moults
The interrupted fall Of each broad leaf Is an event on the sun-deck Where the skin drinks in the gel. x The season’s a sort of dry autumn. It’s the heat that knocks off the leaves Big as faces, warped, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Thailand, Uncategorized
Tagged Falling leaves, February in Thailand
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My New Partner
Not far from Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. I’ve met my perfect match.
Three Thai Poems in the Fortnightly
Here is the link to Three Thai Poems published now in The Fortnightly Review. This old lady eyed me rather suspiciously as she chewed on some straw.
