My body is a temple
and he worships at the altar
of a god he doesn’t know
woke up with a prototype atom bomb
test site in my head
nuclear warheads travelling up my spine
it’s a battle royale in my veins today
and I’m collateral damage
Elle Warren is a poet, artist and photographer from the general region of Cape Town, South Africa. In her spare time she pays the bills doing academic-type things and working for a not-for-profit publisher of African scholarship. Her work has been published in “Itch”, “Enclave”, “Entropy”, and Roekeloos. She moos at cows when she drives past them.