watch as flesh crumble under the gentle drizzle
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).
winged gods dissolve midflight and a ball of smoke pretends to be the sun
waves split the summer sky as fire drips from the marrow of the divine
mistborne serpents coil and drag us from bed to river’s edge
like wounded beasts we writhe in the pale fire of morning
the last warm tide of summer brings fishsong to frail bodies
the act of breaking morning dew releases the voice of the divine held within
from a black river the pilgrim crawls out with a forbidden fruit clutched between teeth
get dressed she said: the void wrapped himself in cosmic fire
petals hum in heat and the horizon bleeds forever
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