The dark veins and burgundy tapestries
Remind you that fireplaces are burning early at dusk
And a little corridor of time between sunrise and sunset
Is nature’s catwalk, where many line-up
Thinned by abscission, wearing brief frocks,
The anorexic and the plus size in pret-a-porter.
What matters here is not the girth or the number of
Dendroid rings, only what will embellish
A little patch of ground with a crown of foliage
And fall is, where every deciduous leaf
Abscises with a promise to reawake,
To the epiphany of spring.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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