late noon backstage with the phantom rehearsing lines
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).
disown the night and embrace the light come dusk we disown the light and embrace the night
you barely know these frail bones from fall
bodies flee from the drizzle of needles after dawn
machinations of the evening storm the sigh that is not mine
sober now the rain too slips under the cold covers
your quiet belongs here in the dark between stars
unmasked in a sea of surgical masks after dawn
the leathery rasp of thunder in the evening monsoon
forlorn and forgone bodies in a state of empty
elancharan gunasekaran 