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Sunday, 12 November 2017

Earth of the salt

Metaphor for flavor
belonging and goodness,
enricher of idiom and language,
symbol of political stance,
issue of elemental intercourse,
token of a kitchen’s viability:
salt.

It does not come from sea,
not from play of sun on water,
salt:
it does not arrive,
it is made.

Salt:
It has a synonym
here in Puttalam. 

[first published in 'The Nation,' July 30, 2006]

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