BRAIDS by Krisha Wignarajah

CONTENTS

It is raining...

Braids

Birds have wings...

Flies buzz...

It is evening...

Grade Two

I go home...

Wellawatta Outdoor Bazaar

Curfew

Amappa's Eyes

Islands

I reached out...

Evening Walk

Awakening shadow...

The Flight

A Robin's Bath

The Heron and the Swan

War on a Mango

Tea with Dadda

Granite Stone

Sigh with the wind...

Today, I have gone back...

About the Poet

Acknowledgements

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Braids

by Krisha Wignarajah

Wellawatta Outdoor Bazaar

Ally
roofs of sackcloth
pregnant
with rain that
drenches
hawkers, their hair plastered to
skin
shows through thin cotton
drips
on cane baskets of fruit and
beans
glisten with drops
Silver
fish gritty with sand from the bottom of the
sea
gray and troubled.