Communication

So we work
in different centuries
and continents
and so we breathe
our different days
of different briefs
different deadlines
take audiences-pulse
set tone
and the toners run dry
give half-word prints
of mid-sentence pause
and the wonderment
of incomprehensibility
swallow our words
in our different ways
and let the residuality
of our ways
imprint the unprintable.

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This nation is resilient

We will not petition the UNHRC

we will not confess to uncommitted crimes
we have nothing to say
to the ignorant,
to the blind,
to the selective inquirer;
we live instead
as we have
speak to one another
discourse with the wise
confess to the compassionate
as we are compassionate to confessor
open to the open-mind
firm in our faith
tested in our solidarities
resolute in the face
of storms beyond our strength
tender in the passing of time
in full cognition of light and shade
and the infinities of configuration
we fall, we rise
as we always have.


[Inspired by the photography of Rukshan Abeywansha and published in the FINE Section of THE NATION, February 24, 2013]

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