Fat and tall, fat more than tall,
Elephantine in some ways,
How I hear the conscience louder than ever,
And the needs diminishing slowly.
Like how my wife is not the vixen in bed anymore,
Only a sandbag on days, while a sand castle on others,
I’m like a book with discolored yellow pages,
Perhaps even a little termite dust from the book shelves,
What the jaws of time nibble away.
And still I write, the thirst to be poetic,
Culling camel after camel for the hump,
Even on days of writers block.
And I will slowly descend the slope,
Eponyms cluttering me, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
And so forth. I’m that cloud covered sky,
The sun lesser than before, hiding away,
Knowing age is a sentence, when the green grass
And the green mile are bittersweet truths,
And I’m the grasshopper, hopping and hoping,
Searching for the morning dew,
To get out of bed each morning,
Imbued with an insatiable lust for life.
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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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