Between the bone and the boner
Lies tender meat.
Betrayed by metamorphosis
A butterfly emerges to smell the wild flowers
On the side of the road. A boy’s journey
On his crossroad taken.
An eclipse, of how toys grow
Flesh on bone, glow on fat and curves on anatomy
At all the right places
For all the wrong reasons
When a little paper boat
Becomes a hull of flesh
And a beautiful kite, a dazzling frock
When a boy is pushed from a ledge
To embrace his perpetual fall
To the death row
Of counter-immunity.
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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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