SURA MEDURA - Blog 3 - Love to Sri Lanka
Startled shadow of the fruit bat swooping dowm imprinted on the Dammissara Road arrests me on the cycle home past the Buddha statue the velvet firmament dusky blue and brass gold stars rustling undergrowth where dogs sleep on the road stars poke through the canopy of breadfruit and I halt and pay attention to this sizzling magic nocturnal crispness Sri Lanka at peace now in knowing I can leave having seen you under this sky showing me in layered ways your response to a full life the full moon topped up heart pulled back a curtain to the rhythm of this land ancient ancient ancient people working together interlocking I can feel the bass of the sea and the rain that woke up the tree frogs ------ I have been back in Scotland for a month now. The Scottish and Sri Lankan environment might as well exist on two different parallel planes, both are alive but in apparently opposite ways, moods and tones… The final showing at th
