දැරියකගේ හිත

A Girl's Head |Katherine Gallagher

In it there is a dream
 that was started
before she was born
and there is a globe
with hemispheres
which shall be happy
there is her own spacecraft
a chosen dress
and pictures of her friends
there are shining rings
and a maze of mirrors
there is a diary
for surprise occasions
there is a horse springing hooves
across the sky
there is a sea that
tides and swells
and cannot be mapped
there is untold hope
in that no equation exactly
fits a head

දිනමිණ වසත් සුළඟ 13.03.2018

Distances

If I reach afar
into the darkening night
can I hold your hand
and murmur words of light?

In the heavy gloom
where thunderclouds abound
can I shield you heart
'till lost worlds are found?


picture drawn in Paint- natural pencil & crayon

සන්ධ්‍යාව එළඹෙද්දී

One Return | Nicolette Stasko

Needles of the casuarinas

are pale green hair

white cockatoos

in the trees

like sheets of paper

clean handkerchiefs

unfolding in the wind

all is silent

except the rumbling

of the train past

two old men on dry grass

basking in the sun

seagulls lost

in a grey parking lot

a half eaten melon—

rind of last night’s moon

leaves turn purple

in the falling dusk

the train

rumbles on

everything held together

by an eye

දිනමිණ වසත් සුළඟ 06.03.18

බෙහෙත් වට්ටෝරුව

Prescription | Nicolette Stasko

Take your pills

In the prescribed cycle of morning
The blue one when you first wake up
The white one with the coffee
To counteract the heart’s racing
And heavy pumping

Then the upstairs ones
The ones I am most afraid
Of keeping
Of missing
Those little palliative ovals
That claim to prevent the weeping
To stop the pictures running
Like a bus through the brain

The ones marked hope
And despair
the ones
Marked pain and rebirth
The ones that say
Nothing


දිනමිණ- වසත් සුළඟ 27.02.2018