the war you almost won with your lips they now belong to verdant winds
Author: Elancharan இளஞ்சேரன்
Elancharan Gunasekaran is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. He has a strange love for all things poetical and Sci-Fi. A winner of the Montblanc X Esquire Six-word Story prize 2017. His latest publications are Superatomicluminal (Hesterglock Press), Gods of the Gonzo (Analog Submission Press) and The Cosmosnaut Manifesto (UndergroundBooks).
the stars have stopped arriving and yet he chants in the darkness a pilgrim yearning salvation
smoke seeps from skin midnight the body is on fire with memories of another age
with every toll of the bell rain buries an empire beneath secrets
end of the path pilgrims blossom in screams
hatched a pair of thunderbirds in my dream each wearing a robe of cinders that hummed of ash and electricity
after dark they salt their shadows to keep the forgotten things out
dying worlds crack like beetle shells between her teeth
a beast the shape of a question yawns and reality forgets
what of the mad gods you ask: they melt into puddles at the edge of the void
elancharan gunasekaran 