Magri Maa is a small village<\/p>\n
Not far from Fort William<\/p>\n
I used to holiday there<\/p>\n
With my distant parents<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I visited Magri Maa<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago<\/p>\n
As I was in Scotland<\/p>\n
To attend a funeral<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It seemed much smaller<\/p>\n
But little else had changed<\/p>\n
I even found a rusty penknife<\/p>\n
That I had hidden in a dry stone wall<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Black Crow Also Sings\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Was still run by the same family<\/p>\n But they did not remember me<\/p>\n Which I found strangely comforting<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On my last day there<\/p>\n I met Jean Lamour<\/p>\n A childhood friend<\/p>\n At a humble jumble sale<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She had not really changed<\/p>\n But seemed a little less exotic<\/p>\n We shared stories of time passing<\/p>\n And kissed outside her school<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was an embrace<\/p>\n Of the long lost years<\/p>\n And nothing else<\/p>\n We were lovers but not in love<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We agreed to correspond frequently<\/p>\n Even though we both had partners<\/p>\n Many years had passed since our childhood<\/p>\n And we were greedy for this opportunity<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Magri Maa is a small village Not far from Fort William I used to holiday there With my distant parents I visited Magri Maa A few weeks ago As I was in Scotland To attend a funeral It seemed much smaller But little else had changed I even found a rusty penknife That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}