Two Poems
Michael Ondaatje, 20 August 1998
There is no mirror in Mirissa
the sea is in the leaves the waves are in the palms
old languages in the arms of the casuarina pineparampara
parampara, from generation to generation
The flamboyant a grandfather planted having lived through fire lifts itself over the roof
unframed
the house an open net
where the night concentrates on a breath...