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My blog at kiwidollar.comI started this blog with the best of inten-
tions – as one starts all blogs. It was origi-
nally intended to provide an almost daily update on the New Zealand business/ban-
king/investment scene. But in the past two years, it has become a record of New Zealand business-related cartoons like the one on the right from the Manawatu Standard. Click for kiwidollar. 2.14.10
Unlike Other Boys: Poems 1964-I started writing poems when I was 17, while I was at the boarding school featured above. Although I knew, immediately, that this was something I would always do, my interest was regarded as nothing more than an adolescent fad. I still remember a class in which the head-
master, Kenneth Barnes, read out a summary of the "characteristics" of adolescence, one of which was a "sudden" interest in writing poetry. At that point, everyone burst into laughter.
Click here to find out what was so hilarious.
My poem appears in Bravado 18DAWN
Rimmed with red,
the sky emerges
from an alcoholic haze,
collapses on the shoulder of a hill.
As thin-lipped
as the letter box,
I brush a broken bottle
from the driveway:
shards of glass
that tinkle on the tarmac,
sharp as laughter
in an empty room.
Bravado is a "literary arts magazine" pub-
lished by The Bravado Editorial Collective, PO Box 13 533, Central Tauranga 3141 2.17.10
Poignant verses from Muslim SpainIs there an educated Muslim, anywhere in the world, whose heart does not yearn for al-Andalus – the Muslim dominion in Spain, which reached its apogee during the Caliphate of Córdoba (929-
1031)? That this caliphate collapsed into fitna, and that the Muslims were eventually expelled from Spain, is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of civilization. Click here for poems. 2.21.10
Today's trial: Curse of the cockroachWhen I arrived in NZ, in 1972, there were two things I immediately liked about my new home in Palmerston North: there were neither mosquitoes nor cockroaches in the area. (Japan, where I had previously lived, is infested with both.) But about 20 years ago, the mozzies arrived. And now we have roaches, too. I have fumigated my former garage (now a bookshop-woodstore) twice in recent weeks, and found at least a dozen of the revolting creatures dead the next day. Tomorrow, I'm going to fumigate again. 2.19.10