Good bye to The 4 AM jolt Watching you Grind sandal wood Good bye to The bucket showers Watching you Put on thanaka Like prawn salad Like Zarni's laughter Our innocence Was never born to last Spoiled by whisky Burnt by fire There was nothing we could do But watch its ashes Drift and scatter Like a cruel And pointless donation For the monks For … [Read more...]
Three poems from Burma
WASO LAPYAE This morning Waso Lapyae Brings blue skies And a giant crow Perched upon the sill Of my squat toilet window This afternoon The heavy rain Gives me a headache Again Neither jasmine tea Nor red wine help This evening I am drunk once more Like a lunatic, I pace the parket floor Reciting poems by Li Bai Yes Tonight We'll … [Read more...]
