On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman Mind Body Spirit Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is

Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying

his family and his habitat

What can you do to push past these insecurities

and asks the reason why I turned poet

On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman Mind Body Spirit Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena isSri Lanka, 1979. The Herath family has just moved to Sal Mal Lane, a quiet street disturbed only by the cries of the children whose families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. Their innocence contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and it