Colombo, Poetry

VADDAI

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons  I eat Point Pedro vaddai–urad dhal, chillies, curry leaves, fennel, salt– the packet forgotten until now among treats I bought from a fair in Colombo the last time…

Poetry

Free Elephants

Where elephants go to die were departments of Spanish literature in remote Plains and Midwestern colleges. according to Jose Donoso. For me, these pictures of an emaciated, starved, older female, broken, tired,…