If you can untie the knots of your brains
And take every neuron synapsed with serotonin
And throw them back on your senses
You would.
If you take that sweet spot of your orgasm
And stitch on your lips
You would
[Then kissing would be the shortest point to brink, to overflow]
And still, you go through pretenders
To find the muse, who settles on your soul
With the delicacy of a butterfly
And something beautiful is found, when the butterfly molts her wings
And makes the leaf, a pact of virtue
A symbiosis of soul and flesh.
You will then paint a portrait of the muse in your heart
That will stay still as she wilts and ages.
A portrait that will be your one magnum opus.
A sessile love with a million choreographies
But only one bed.
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.
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