this body drifts into the landscape
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).
floats down the concrete last autumn leaf
in the grey listening to the birdsong
part foliage part squirrel
the woods wail and starlings scatter
winter in denial
and so the withering begins
tree top tip the perfectly balanced mynah
bodies in limbo morning rain
autumn rooster charges at invisible beings