Volume 6 | Issue 3 | Oct-November
2012 |
A matter of certainity
Lalita Noronha
It’s the only certainty in life,
true now as it was Precambrian,
three billion years ago.
It begins at birth,
an involuntary giving,
an inevitable taking of days.
All forms of matter,
red-glowing hydrogen,
dark dust clouds, bright blue knots
of new born stars, flare and burn.
Still I cling to you, my mother,
whom I tether to earth, to me,
unwilling to let you dance
the skies on misted breath.
Lalita Noronha - Born in India, Lalita Noronha has a Ph.D. in Microbiology and is a widely published scientist, poet, writer and teacher. Her literary work has appeared in over eighty journals, magazines and anthologies, including The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, Catholic Digest, Gargoyle, and Get Well Wishes (Harper Collins.) She has twice won the Maryland Literary Short Story Award, a Maryland Individual Artist Award, and the National League of American Pen Women Award, among others. She is a fiction editor for the Baltimore Review and teaches both science and a humanities course (Glimpses of the Culture of India) based on her short story collection, Where Monsoons Cry. Her poem "Bar Talk" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2011. Often featured on National Public Radio, “The Signal,” she is working on her first novel.
e-mail: drlnb@comcast.net
Web: http://www.lalitanoronha.com
