your shadow refuses to follow you into battle it has learned the language of rebellion
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).
horned wolves sing at the iron gate demanding an audience with winter’s ghost
winter dawn a thousand tongues of frost bloom in the trees and none are forgiving
no one reads aloud here and if you do the dragon shifts in its sleep and words become phantasmal wisps
catalogued pages of cinder each one glows slightly and crackles in the dark
the thunder rolled over the canvas carving new veins of ash of lightning
as the fog clears drowned phantoms emerge from the reflection
the hourglass cracks and the sand escapes as tendrils of silver moths
to the queen of crimson tongue the moon begs: let me be your sword
forests choking with gold and heroes born with swords too soft to save
elancharan gunasekaran 