Aviators

Kittyhawk

Kittyhawk, North Carolina
That place where Wright Brothers

Proved the whole world wrong.
And they showed

How wingless creatures
Become floating vessels

To witness the first man-made flight,
Of how a little glider

Glided some hundreds of meters,
What took evolution, 53 million years,

Of strengthening sinews
And stitching feathers

And just like the B52, you see
Crow bombers bombing the life out,

While albatrosses dive like Concords,
And A380s make 360 degree turns

While in an office in California
A man named Elon Musk

Masterminds a space dragon to find
An exoplanet that can sustain life,

To master the spacey places
Far beyond Glastonbury,

Where Avalon still lies,
On the far edge of a dream.

Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

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. View all posts by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)