a forest recites your lore in birdsong seven moons long
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).
vile beasts disguised as children ringing bells and laughing along the pale river
heroes devolve from the trauma and crawl back into cocoons
one vision shows that you never left your glass prison and another shows you trying to stay afloat in a catastrophic whirlpool
ritual: smoke rises shaped like a pilgrim impaled by war spears
the bard was set on fire and he sang his last to an empty throne
the summer mist wakes to the humming in the hills
she walks the cracked earth with a staff grown from contagion and fills skull jars with disease
a mad god dangles upside down from paradise spilling rain and lightning from his mouth
when you start to fade live louder than you ever did
elancharan gunasekaran 