A fat roasted chicken
Bloated by injected hormones.
Kim Kardashian in a negligee
Catching the lustful eye.
The elephant in a Buddhist temple,
A tusker so mammoth in size.
The whale on the beach,
That carcass touching the eye.
In this world of large things
We strive to be larger than life,
Fact not myth. And looking out of the window
I see a little house fly,
Lurking on the window sill,
Unaware that a gecko was prowling
About to mouth it.
So the small, enters the belly of the big,
The big is swallowed by the bigger
The very big, almost the superlative – Homo sapiens,
The wise one, as proclaimed in a scientific name,
Worships the biggest by far – god.
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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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