After Dorian’s Havoc

~ miracle of the sleeping boy of Moratuwa ~

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Ocean —

Mercury in God’s palm.

Sky —

A leap into brittle crystal

and on grey sand,

huts built on air hunger.

Inside one hut,

a crippled boy sleeps.

Blessed,

blessed shadow of dreams!

Beach —

Strewn with salt and bitterness

where damp men

who hunt fishes wait,

ebony martyrs with

hair like lacquer of night sky’s

merciless blue black.

Church —

a simple affair, effigies of Mary,

Jesus and Saint Michael

framed in alcoves, and a bell.

Now

the sun’s holocaust

with deafening rhythms

consumes all —

Poverty, sky and melancholy boats.

With a sighing susurration

the ocean withdraws,