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.
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.