Poem Person now in stores!!!!

My first book is now in stores! With forewords from Gratiaen Prize winners, Vivimarie VanderPoorten, Sakuntala Sachithanandan, the book comes in hardcover and features 70 of my best work in poetry. The book is available at Barefoot and at ODEL. International/online purchases are possible at www.odel.lk (under the Shop More category).

That kind of loving

The razor wires you pull across my taught skin

are ripping it in places

allowing for jewels of my blood to bloom

and melt in the hazy atmosphere

dulled down by your smoke

I feel nothing as I watch you

Mark the paces in an abstract state of  mind

The shattered glass that is strewn around

Play the part of little mirrors

on which I see you, naked

Walk up to the antique ebony table and

Ease out a handful of black rose petals

From a very tall vase

And throw them up in the air like confetti

A celebratory mood

I moan

I shift on the cold cold cement

You turn on the radio

To some Etta James

and light a row of expensive candles

I can taste the pool of blood I am lying in

Face down

Happy Valentine’s Day,

You say.