the prophecy was torn in half each half transformed into a phoenix that lived for a few breaths and turned into ash and from the ashes the prophecy was made whole again
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).
only you bare skinned and burning dancing at the edge of the world
in the marrow of the forest sentience grows veins of mycelium untangle from nature’s web
the mad gods gather round a table draped in white velvet to feast on bone and ruin
the river bleeds backwards and trees walk the cold land with hollowed souls
nightfall skin upon skin we consume and conquer like wildfire
the winter moon settles in a heartbeat older than the breath of the elder gods
a beast with antlers of smoke slumbers under the watchful gaze of seven suns
speak thy precious name and sip chaos from the river’s mouth
grey clouds fracture and spill ash in torrents upon the fragments of a sentient civilization
