a phoenix breathes its final and first breath in a single act
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).
where merfolk gather silver salt falls as tears into the seas
chaosseed burned deep into the marrow of king the void is both cradle and crown
every dawn bleeds and the question remains who will fear me?
a crown that turns thoughts to flame and vision to smoke
crowns in the ashes too heavy for the living too wild for the dead
the wood bends and forms a ribcage guarding an infant fire
night replaced by a black flower blooms swallowing the stars
the rain falls not as liquid but as ashes filling mouths with grey venom
a hollow eye staring at an empty field where ghosts wander in circles
elancharan gunasekaran 