- 31 July 2019
Ardha (Half)
Four months ago, on April 1st 2019, an award winning Sinhala writer Shakthika Sathkumara was arrested under ICCPR Act enacted in 2007 to give effect to certain provisions of the United Nations multilateral treaty...
- 08 February 2019
Perception
I am the wind;
Magical nymph;
Raindrop;
Spider web;
Or, a plant grown
in defiance of Time;
Flower that has sucked
- 06 September 2018
Get customized to laugh
When there’s chance,
To the, extent possible,
We will laugh aloud.
Pressure that arise in between
The day of the flower of liberty’s
Maturity to the day of its fruition
Will kill us; we would have
- 20 June 2016
I am not a Sri Lankan
For crossing passages
I have a visa
as Israelis passport
in the hands of Palestinians.
For going past the ‘Checkpoints
I possess an identity card
- 27 November 2018
Do not forget us
Moist of the moon yesterday
Exist not - in the moon today
Nor life in flowers, scent in 'em neither
None able to break in a smile either...
Aftermath war mind is:
As still as a graveyard, rammed;
- 01 February 2018
The bird that beseeched the prison
In a night
that was filled with
silence and rain
the hunters reached the nest
and captured that bird.
For them......
- 08 February 2016
The Killing of Shambukas*
Jim Crow segregated hostel rooms.
Ceiling fans bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the books
and blood on the papers,
Black body swinging in mute silence,
Strange fruit hanging from tridents.
