Avidya OG25 we act like an artist

we act like an artist arranging objects on a canvas

the Do 217 had become obsolete

Now published

In the face of such forces

of radical philosophies

Avidya OG25 we act like an artistThese poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up it finally felt safe visiting war torn Tamil areas overwritten by a tourist focus on the sun spoiled South. In 2020, he, his wife and