Of Solongs and Ashes — Yu Yu Myint Than

Of Solongs and Ashes

Tea Leaves salad, Tea Leave Salad with dried beef, hasty hugs, 2nd round of tamarind whiskey sour, cuckoo, splashes of rains, touches, Yangon, guilt, fear, metal bars, Sule Pagoda,Mom, fly glue ( yeah I use it, why not?), Pansoedan, rusty locks, the rolled up jeans pants wet with muddy water, buses, Lillies, White Lillies, old film wheels, tears, cockroach passing on the top of my feet, Signal, red lipstick I only wore once, “Safe Travels, Don’t Die”, chipmunks, noisy batch of pigeons on my roof, ambulance, the hawkers, Beele Lake, Ithaca, empty bird house, Polaroid first sheet which says “Love Me Tender”, Snow, 45 mins walk to home, home, forest home, pots and pans, mom, Vici, tailless gecko, ice green tea, 15 hours flight, Ngapi, Insein prison, gorges, quarantines, gloves on me, the glove on the road, tomato soup from the food pantry, waterfall, sunflowers, Trumansburg, ice machine next to my hotel room, Bang, chili, Acai Sobert, Mro blanket, sleep,Pollen, Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle Shop, Crime Alerts, tasteless chewing gum after a long hour chewing, deers’ eye flashing, mom’s dry fingers, found red glasses, star flowers on Shwedagone Pagoda road, Craiglists, Tinder, coma, Kya Seint (Strong Burmese tea), chick pea powder, Danny, grief, ice machine sounds reminds me of some nights, Pathos, Father’s Office, Hindu family, my lost pair of sketcher boots, Ouzo, stray dogs. rain-tree, Museum, honey, vertigo, my summer green dress (which you said he likes), 37th street, woods, traffic, oxygen, pulling out my hair (both grey and black), laughters, peach, Franklin house, ambulance sounds from the phone while we speak, mango, get lost, walk, Brook Lane, I miss avocado ice cream from Anawrahta road (I realized I never learn its name), repeating sounds of the fluorescent light, jasmine flowers, new faces, slippers…

Oh, hi, nice to meet you…