Gossamer
A cardboard woman
Braving a paper moon
Torn in lip
Breaking-in
Mandible and hymen
Once border control agents
Now crash test dummies
Moon-landing
She had the pout
Lips that broke like china
In to an impact crater
Fists
A perennial woman
In a geisha mask
Playing hide and seek
Battered
The wife finally becomes Juliet
On the scenic balcony
Of the Golden Gate
Murder
The never-ending story
Of a moth to a flame
Sister of Icarus
The ‘S’ Word
She thought it was surrender
He saw it as submission
It was only sadism
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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