in sympathy with old machines bones hum
Tag: senryu
limbs recoil at the first sunrise in days
sleep beneath a broken engine dreaming i am water
craters bloom moss cushions the rainfall
fungal veil a cathedral roof pulses quiet light
before dawn the fathers of night would trek across the sky extinguishing starmites none would be allowed to outshine their child the moon blinking stars are the battles fought and the ones who still shine can only count their days
do you vow to travel the rust void and beyond to the dead dwarf star and retrieve your kin’s kris
the goblin who drowned in dragon’s fire at the banquet table emerges a god cursed by starvation
in the glassfang meadows the shepherd of flesh is a beast without mercy
one eye sees too much: burn bloom become
elancharan gunasekaran 