Mars is in the news again
with a headline announcing that there
Is water in Mars. Not the places
You’d expect though. You wonder, what if the heart
Was not the location of love?
Can we send a pathfinder to find
Where in this martian body
Is love found. Can it be the spleen,
What hides little immune cells,
Or the kidney that filters through
Nephrons or is it the mind,
That maps stars on her neurons.
So where is love?. Could it be found in the diaphragm
That open the lungs to be ventilated
Pushing oxygen through
And carbon dioxide out, and makes
Spasmodic movements, when you’re
Near someone that matters more
Than just the caress of skin, or a
Pact of lips. Someone who takes
Your breath away – through the passage
Of a wind pipe – while catching
The windy dream.
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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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