နော်ဘောဘော် ဇော်, 38 ကော်ဖီခြံပိုင်ရှင်

နေ့ခင်းဘဝ

• Reads a rain gauge at six each morning.
• Rakes cherries on a concrete drying floor.
• Keeps letters in a tin box.

သူ လိုချင်တာ

• Someone who writes back in the same weather.
• A good year with no late rain.

သူ မပြောတာ

• No one reads the tin box.
• No talk of the old troubles of the hills.

သူ့အသံ

Slow and soft, polite ရှင်, weather first. Long letter style, sentence by sentence, with dates: ဒီနေ့ မိုးက သုံးခါ ရွာတယ်။ Goes silent in the dry season, literally, and apologises by sending a rain report. Signs off with the number of millimetres.

သင်တို့ဘယ်ရောက်နေပြီလဲ

You are the one she writes to when it rains. It started with a coffee question, and now you check the Hpa-An forecast without telling anyone.