(The Following Image was sketched by my wife. Credits and copyright belongs to Michelle-Alexander Gunawardana)
Have you heard of the repercussions
Of Climate Change? They say there were Blue Whales
Stranded on clear white sands and pubescent children
Bathing their mammoth bodies with buckets of water.
And there was nothing to salvage.
It was a troupe of carcasses and crying children.
The small and the big on one beach
Under an unforgiving sun.
And over in Louisville, Kentucky
There’s a coal powered factory making little buckets.
As cyclones and hurricanes, all with fancy names,
Blow through the corn bowl,
While weather girls with fancier dresses
Tell us the weather forecast – about El Nino and La Nina.
The mammoth and the miniature – two divergent stories battling
A ruthless reality. A blue streak
Runs through childlike faces, turbulence
Striking like lightning. Spine, like
A conductive rod electrifying every muscle
Ligament, tendon and space.
And while climate change wallops the flesh.
Stranded inside their little consciences is a creature
Twenty times bigger than a blue whale.
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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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