Curiosity driven life
(Gunawardana Research Lab)
I am the oxytocin flustered chimp Who lost his precious baculum (penis bone) And gained a royal flush of blood, to the thrush of a boneless universe, To a place bigger than any God. You are the estrogen-dripping monkey-ness Whose knee caps attest, – Just like mine – To when we became blissfully sloppy, Rolling and fencing tongues. […]
I am the oxytocin flustered chimp
Who lost his precious baculum (penis bone)
And gained a royal flush of blood,
to the thrush of a boneless universe,
To a place bigger than any God.
You are the estrogen-dripping monkey-ness
Whose knee caps attest, – Just like mine –
To when we became blissfully sloppy,
Rolling and fencing tongues. And I am, the general of my actin
And myosin, my sliding filament theory.
I wear my adipose covered
By the stitch of my skin; I burn the fat,
Inside a pear-shaped kiln. I’m infinitely, the elephant inside
Your room and you are my Elephas maximus;
The man who exonerates whales,
As the humpback sings her beautiful song.
And I love you, knowing you never
Give me Meg Ryan moments of ghost whales, high on coffee,
I look at your little tummy, now getting
Flabbier, with a little flap of fat;
And you doing your exercises, to lose it all, fast.
Our love is;
Aves in graceful gender,
Hominoidea in our bipedal-ness,
Cetacea in orgasms.
And in that dopamine charged moment,
Oxytocin surrenders to a briefly risen bliss,
Of poetic overhaul,
To the charge of the serotonin brigade.
Dilantha Gunawardana, a molecular biologist/biochemist trained at the University of Melbourne, lives in a chimerical universe of science and poems. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in The Writing Disorder, Heart Wood Literary Magazine, Quadrant Online, Poets for Science, Canary Literary Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Forage, Kitaab, Creatrix, Eastlit, Cephalo Press and Zingara Poetry Review among others, while also contributing to three poetry anthologies, including his latest collection of Cancer themed poems which he penned while battling cancer. Dilantha made into the final three in the award for the best original poetry for the year 2024 in Sri Lanka’s State Literary Awards Ceremony and was also awarded the prize for “The emerging writer of the year – 2016” in the Godage National Literary Awards, Sri Lanka, while being shortlisted for the poetry prize, in the same awards ceremony. Dilantha lives in a beautiful island country shaped like a teardrop, Sri Lanka, known for its black tea, true cinnamon, the love of a colonial game called cricket, passion for spicy curries and was formed as recently as ~23 to ~5 million years ago, breaking away from the Indian landmass. Dilantha in his free time takes part in pub quizzes, maintains a photography blog dedicated to birds, forays into prose writing, and plays basketball, soccer and cricket. Dilantha’s poems can be found at: https://poemsfromceylon.com/
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