Hi Glenn. Yes, as you surmise, The Dhoor is a place name. (It means "black ford", apparently - Doo-aah ... all sorts of doo-wop connotations now occur to me.) I'd love to get a bit of Tamil into my poems, though.
You got the teacher bit right too. And the gist of the poem.
G'day, Cally! Glad you liked the strangeness. (I had that old and unpromising Scots word "dour" in mind.) The second paragraph of your comment sums the thing up perfectly.
And hello Perry. I like the point you make about the Dhoor. I'll give that some thought. And I like the thought that I have a canon! And you're right, this does fit into it. (I don't write exclusively about the island, as you might be thinking, but I am putting together a collection of the poems about it that I have. Hence my Manx bombardment at present.)
I saw that, Carl! In fact I walked past the place just the other day. (Not my usual neck of the woods.) Absurd price, but it's a surprisingly large building for what was - I think - not even a village school. I think it catered for a lot of outlying farms and houses with very little in the way of larger settlements.
Cheers all
David
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