Cheran Rudhramoorthy

Dr Cheran Rudhramoorthy is a renowned Tamil poet. Born in Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka, growing up through a Civil War, Cheran now works as a Professor at the University of Windsor, in Canada.

Aiyo  

This word comes as the voice of the well;   A thousand children— A hundred artists, drunk, lost their way— those who fell  while crossing over the woven coconut fence, clandestinely, in the ecstasy of desire— I know the chapter of

The Salty Kiss

To not sing about the afternoon Is impossible. The one wandering the desert, his voice wringing with grief, is not the singer— in his path, marble tears of sunlight and patti flowers; The nectar’d voice from the mosque that calls one