December 2024 – Page 4 – elancharan gunasekaran

in tongues no sage or beast could name sigils untamed devoured by the dirt

library walls bleed dust and secrets a staircase turns into a serpent and beyond the jaws of book covers are worlds filled with danger and magic

hair braided in embers the fire will only speak to her she burns and churns until the sun rises from her navel

the stone eaters rise with mouths full of granite and abyssal hymns

back to the heart of the forest grim where you become a seed where you become a blasphemous scream

blighted roots write eulogies for the autumn sun

the gods have gone silent as winter devours the last of barren trees

clouds turn feral racing like wolves across the barren sky driven to the brink of madness by the sight of the autumn moon

the spell did not listen it grew teeth tore through the dimensions ate his shadow and vanished

to the edge of the world where dragons sleep to the whispers of: order is a lie