Handwriting
The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home. Here are sunless forests, cattle-bells, stilt-walkers ''with the movement of prehistoric birds''; a Buddha buried ''so roots/like fingers of a blind monk/spread for two hundred years over his face''; ''saffron and panic seed, lotus flowers, san...
The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home. Here are sunless forests, cattle-bells, stilt-walkers ''with the movement of prehistoric birds''; a Buddha buried ''so roots/like fingers of a blind monk/spread for two hundred years over his face''; ''saffron and panic seed, lotus flowers, san...
