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The long wooden shaft
On the tip of the mandible bone
Slipping through an ancient chorus
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A song in a miscellany of voices,
Both eerie and soothing in the same degree,
Like a drone, a beast, the wind, a cicada and an alien
Interrupting each other with outreaching sounds
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And just like synaesthesia
Would refract kaleidoscopic colors
Into threads of melodies that impinge but still steer
Past, greeting each other, freshening every trajectory
Into a euphony; the long shaft bamboozling the ear
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Like so many stringed epiphanies,
Caressing your ear, caving in your soul
Subduing all your animal spirits
Into a meditation of bliss.
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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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