Author Archives: Paul John Roach

Poem about Growing up in a Golf Club

Worlds separate us now.I have tiptoed across the creaking floorof the locker roomwith its bits of grass stuck to the floorboardsand odd scratchy golfballs kept in cardboard trays,closed the doorand gone down the brown, waxshined staircaseto the bar and the boys. I’ve looked my last illicit look with youfrom my grandparents’ roomin the top of […]

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Miriam and Kapil’s Wedding

On May 1st Wendy and I will be leaving for Denver, Colorado to celebrate my daughter, Miriam’s wedding. Her fiancé, Kapil is the son of Indian parents so the ceremony(ies) will be predominately Hindu and extend over three days, including a mehndi party, music evening, special pujas as well as the wedding ceremony itself. I […]

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