CYCLE TOUR - END OF THE ROAD, FOR NOW
December 16th 2009 The Former Mike Brockie Arrives in Wellington
You stood in the newsroom like a messenger from a sunnier land.
Between a climb on a gravel road in the King Country
and a tail-wind out of Lower Hutt
you’d pedalled away a few decades of worry.
All you carried - the sun lightly on your back,
a mind clean and clear as a back-country moon.
You were a modern who’d made the epic jou
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