Dear Su,
Dear Su,Funerals have become the only event in my country. Tiny rows of white flags stretch from one pole to the next like the sky's teardrop strings. This is how we announce a funeral in…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Samodh Porawagamage
Samodh Porawagamage writes about the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lankan Civil War, poverty & underdevelopment, and colonial & imperial atrocities. His poems appear in the anthology Out of Sri Lanka by Bloodaxe Books and other journals. Becoming Sam, his debut collection, is forthcoming from Burnside Review Press in 2024. These poems are from his completed manuscript All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths, which is a child’s chronicle of the tsunami.
Dear Su,
Dear Su,Today I talked to a teen monk about our age. I wanted to find if there is escape from suffering in what he does: you know, wearing yellow robes, learning Pali chants, skipping dinner,…